

I am waiting for that time, that person, that event when my life will finally begin. My life is passing, day by day, and I am waiting for it to start. For twenty years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that’s when life will really begin.Īnd through all that waiting, here I am. Then the married person, then the person I’d become when we have kids. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have.

“I have always, essentially, been waiting.
