Before and After
"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After." - Ms. Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs In my last post , written almost a year ago, I shared my apprehension about growing up and letting go of my being a "young adult" and transitioning to being just an adult. It felt like I just went on with my life thinking I was still in my early 20's and then boom -- I just woke up and realized that I already belonged to the category of women in their late twenties. And I was like, what have I done with my life? That was me, a year ago. Everything else that happened from that time up until the very early stages of 2014 --- are things that I have learned to label in my mind as My Before. But before what, exactly? I feel like it was before I read this: