I can't be sure when I became grown up. All of the sudden, I'm worrying about how I fit into social hierarchies, and what my savings account looks like.
I just want to have a homemade grape popsicle while playing outside with my siblings mid-day in the summertime, carefree.
Unencumbered by the stresses of city and daily life. Dependent on the safety net of family.
But I do realize that this very independence has given me a challenge, and flared up this internal drive to succeed. And it is that very quality that has landed me in an apartment and good job in New York, the greatest city in the world.
