20 and Free
(Photo Credit: Amber Nicole Ginter, 2016: The Sun is setting) I have learned to accept who I am and who I am not and it may have taken all nineteen years leading up to my Birthday to figure that out, but you know what; that is okay! Okay? Yes, okay because I am still learning to love who I am amidst the things that life throws at me. Today for instance, I turn 20. It isn't so much the number that freaks me out or the notion that I'm no longer a teenager but, the associations and standards that come with the prime of the age. The responsibilities, the expected relationships, the jobs, the stress, the "I'm getting old trend" facade; they all petrify me. Why? Because I know that regardless of what I do I'm going to have to blow another candle off the cake as the years go by and before I know it, this short life of mine will be over before I took the time to truly enjoy it. So how exactly, can such a small double digit number instill so much fear and pai