26 Thoughts for Turning 26

Prologues

Mary Skinner

Society & Culture

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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58. I recently rang in my 26th birthday, I'm having some big feelings....I have always looked forward to past birthdays because I've seen getting older as a pathway to more self confidence, growth, and knowing myself better. However, for whatever reason, this birthday has brought up a lot of conflicting feelings for me. I recorded this episode to serve as a sort of time capsule for the exact way I'm feeling in my life right now, because I know I will appreciate looking back on it when I turn 27.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to prologs. My name is Mary. Thank you for tuning in again, or if you're new here, welcome. I just turned 26. Two days before recording this episode, I turned 26. And I've had a lot of realizations in the last couple of weeks leading up to this birthday, that this is the first birthday I've had that I can remember where I haven't been excited to
0:42.3	turn one year older. When I was a teenager, aging and having a birthday meant getting closer to
0:48.4	moving out. It meant getting closer to leaving my hometown and I was so excited to get older.
0:53.6	And then you're so excited to
0:54.8	turn 18 and you're like, oh my God, I'm a real adult, even though when I think about being 18,
0:59.1	now I'm like, that was still a baby. Then you turn 21 and you're like, oh my God, I can legally
1:03.8	drink. And then 22 and 23 and you just feel this excitement, or at least I felt that excitement.
1:10.1	And when I turned 25, I was so
1:11.8	excited because I just felt the frontal lobe developing and I felt myself changing so much and I knew
1:17.2	that I was growing and it was so exciting. And I've always been excited for a birthday. I've always
1:22.3	been excited to be one year older. And this is the first year that I can remember where I just
1:27.1	don't feel excited and I
1:28.4	feel nervous and I feel scared. I'm 26. And I know that is very much still mid 20s, but I see 26 and
1:36.5	I'm like, it might be mid 20s, but it's on the back end. It's like the latter half of your 20s.
1:41.0	And that has made me really freak out because I've just felt like, what am I doing?
1:45.0	Where am I going? What direction am I headed in? What is the rest of my 20s going to look like?
1:48.8	What are my 30s going to look like? Oh my God. Like, you know, it's really sinking in that you never get
1:54.3	younger, you only ever get older. And that's it. And that's just it. And I think 26 is the first birthday I can really ever remember where I've just
2:02.4	felt a little freaked out about the inevitable passage of time and about how I'm never going to be
2:07.9	younger than I am right now. So last year I made an episode called 25 thoughts for turning 25.
2:15.2	And now I'm going to do 26 thoughts for turning 26. And my list is very
2:19.4	different when I was writing down this list. I remember the feeling I had at 25, the hopeful feeling,
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