In so many ways I have changed. But in so many ways I've also stayed exactly the same. Sometimes I look over my life and things that feel like they happened just last year happened almost 10 years ago, and other times last year feels like decades ago itself. Life is all tangly, isn't it? At this point in my life, being almost 26 years old - perhaps the 'prime' of my life? - I feel as though every experience and belief and moment of my life to this point has been balled up and squished into who I am today. I may not be the Pagan Christian 16-year-old, nor the confused 18-year-old trying to learn how to make friends at Bible school. I may not be the fundamentalist Christian of my 21st year of life, nor the confused and questioning girl of 23.
Apparently, however, one's neurons finish fusing in your mid-twenties. So my brain is finished, I guess. Now I just get to keep filling it. Maybe now I can see more clearly who I truly am.
Am I Christian? Yes. Am I "always exploring"? Yes. Do I love climbing trees and feeling the wind in my hair? Absolutely. Am I better at making friends? Hell yeah.
