W:

How would you describe this chapter of your life, and what do you think that it's teaching you?

I would describe this chapter of my life as one of exploration, education, and exhaustion. I am working and I’m in school.

I am getting to spend a lot of time with friends, and meeting new people, but it just feels sometimes like a lot to balance, while also still feeling rested and not burnt out.

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I think it's teaching me a lot. I am very literally getting an education in a classroom, and I always feel like I am learning at work and from the people I spend time with.

But I also think its teaching me that this phase of feeling tired and burnt out is probably going to happen to everyone at certain points in their life but it's not something that's meant to last very long. So, I think it's a generative chapter but one that I am looking forward to… getting into a new phase.

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W:

Sounds like you have a healthy appreciation for it, while acknowledging its lack of sustainability.

Yes. I would say the appreciation is waning, swiftly, but that's okay because its coming to a close soon and I am trying to appreciate it. I think it can be really easy to, for me at least, to be looking forward often, if we’re not completely satisfied with everything happening in the moment, but theres always wonderful things happening. And I do have wonderful things in my life that I am really grateful for. I just try to appreciate them while they're happening.

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