Because snow-laiden brownstones look best in Brooklyn

["Brooklyn in the snow" - via Susan Stripling Photography]

It's daunting to realize you are growing up, to close one chapter in your life only to open another you hope will be equally thrilling and amazing as the first. To accept the fact the future, that thing you've been anticipating for years, is here. The future. You know everyone is thinking about but most don't want to discuss. Yeah, talk about an elephant in the room.

It's not that I'm scared to grow up, I think I've been ready to be grown up since around the age of 14. It's the realization not everything has gone as planned and not everything will, and I am completely and perfectly okay with it.

I think.