The Big Day

.Occupation: Student Auditor.
I woke up this morning [much earlier than I have in a very long time] and took a good long look in the mirror, expecting to see a woman, wise and mature, ready to start her career. To my surprise, the girl looking back at me looked no different than the one from yesterday. Her hair was still an unbrushed mess, her face still splashed with redness [a lovely gift from the acne fairy who apparently has not received the memo that I have long ago left my adolescence] and her eyes were still droopy from [unnecessary] lack of sleep. I looked pretty much exactly the same as I have looked every morning since I hit puberty. And I felt no different either. I didn't have a sudden burst of maturity or vast increase in intellect as I was hoping to have.

I guess I just thought that starting my first real-life, bonafide, 9-5[ish] job would change me, make me somehow instantly older and more mature. That's foolish, I know, but there's never any harm in hoping. Alas, my little fairy tale turned out to be just that, no more than an imaginative wish. But regardless of my readiness, I rushed off to work and my new life.

As I showed up at the office, promptly 8:30 [a good half hour before really necessary] I realized just how different my life was about to be. After lallygagging around for what seemed like endless months, indulging my fleeting childhood, today I was pulled back into the reality of the adult world. I am now a grownup with a career. My life is going to be much less spontaneous and carefree these days, and more filled with work and responsibility. But no matter how different my day to day routine may be, I do believe my life will be equally enjoyable and just as filled with friendship and love as it's always been.

.New adventures on the horizon and this little girl woman is ready to go on them.