23 REFLECTIONS FROM 23
When I turned 24 (December 2021), I took some time to reflect on the lessons I’d learned in the past year, either for the first time or for the hundredth time. I wrote out my favorite 23 lessons from being 23, and I wanted to share them all in one place for conversation’s sake. These come from conversations, thoughts, mistakes, and all of life over the last year. They may be wrong.
Sustainability is sexy.
One of my favorite things is to hear a plane, look up, and see birds but no plane.
I want to grow up and have a smaller and smaller closet.
Water never tastes better than from the cup with the game schedule on the side at 4AM.
We rarely, if ever, get to decide what a move of God looks like.
You can do “artist” work like a technician, and you can do “technician” work like an artist.
Part of the meaning of life is to see meaning in life.
Don’t be afraid to sleep more.
How do acceptance and desire co-exist? Partly, we’ll have to accept that we’ll always have desires.
Most things work out. Sometimes they don’t. But for the most part they do. Maybe not how you planned, but they do.
Don’t play fast and loose with the Bible; it wasn’t written that way.
There’s a fine line between good habits and “project self.” It just depends how secure you are.
Take the long view.
Whose pity are you waiting for?
Wealth by itself is too small a dream for your life.
Tend to the fires you want to keep.
Good friends are everything. Everything. Everything.
Attention seeking may not always be sinful, but it certainly is distracting.
You really can just sit in the silence for as long as you need to.
You won’t worry your way into a rich life.
Gratitude is your salvation.
We won’t learn from mistakes if we’re too afraid to make any.
Be a blessing.