Thoughts on Turning 25

Welcome to my first official post of the new year! After surviving yet another challenging year, we move on to a fresh start with many goals we want to achieve. The new year to me is a double-edged sword because my birthday happens to be on January 1st. Yes, you heard that right, when the new year starts, I become one year older. As much as I enjoy celebrating my birthday on New Years’ Day, it becomes more challenging as I get older. As Billie Eilish said in one of her songs, “I’m getting older, I’ve got more on my shoulders” which almost every young adult can relate to. In this post, I will be sharing my thoughts on turning 25 including hopes for this upcoming year.

Turning 25 means yet another year of trying to survive adulthood. I am still living with my parents, I have student loan debt that needs to be repaid, and still haven’t figured out what to do with my life. What is also worse is that after this year, I am off of my parents’ insurance plan, and I have to get my own. I don’t even know anything about insurance because this isn’t taught in schools at all. However, that doesn’t mean it is a bad thing because I can focus on what is right and comfortable for me to do. I admit that adulting has been challenging especially in your 20s (and during a global pandemic). That also means I am not getting any younger and inching closer to my middle age years. I know a lot of people say that you have plenty of time to do all the things you want to do, but I feel limited as my body keeps aging. What if I don’t have time because I have to work a lot? How am I going to keep myself financially stable? Most importantly, I am going to keep on improving my mental health because that impacts my physical health as well. I’ve been through a lot of anxiety and stress in these last few years, and I don’t want to put up with an excessive amount. I need to work on not overthinking, and setting my own boundaries, even if I have to say no. Finally, I am going to work on putting the past behind me and move forward. From time to time, I have negative thoughts about what happened in the past including traumatic events and toxic relationships. I don’t need any of that to put me down and make me feel insecure. From now on, I am going to stay in the present and continue improving myself. It can be easy to look in the future and have everything planned out, but it is more important to focus on the present because things can change along the way, which isn't a bad thing sometimes. Eventually everything will work out, even if it is different than what you originally planned.

Another major change happening this year is that I started a new job. This is my first one in a year after being unemployed all of last year. As I am writing this post, I already started working. I will be posting an update about it in regards to what it is like, and how it compares to my old job. Hopefully this isn’t as stressful as my last job, and that there is purpose to it. However, this job is temporary, so after it is done, I have to look for another one. Already I have done some light job searching, but honestly, I really don’t know what I want to do for my dream job. As I mentioned several times, I want a job that will make me happy, and not drain my mental health. I hope that I will be able to find one, but for now my focus is working on getting situated in my current job. It is in an industry that I never worked in before, so I am trying to learn the ropes of it. Working again means I also have to get used to waking up early. Since I didn’t have a job last year, I was sleeping in till noon most of the time. I know it will be difficult because I am not used to this schedule, but I think it will be for the best. At least I have the weekends and state holidays off.

There are also some fun things I am looking forward to as well. This year there are a few Marvel movies as Disney Plus shows coming out. The first one will be Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania which is coming out next month. Even though I will be working most of the time, I still hope I have time to see it. Then there is Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 which comes out this May. I heard this one is going to be a tearjerker as this will be the final movie in the Guardians franchise, and a lot of the characters might die. As for Disney Plus shows, there hasn’t been really any updates about them. I know we are getting shoes like Secret Invasion, Iron Heart, and the second season of Loki. However, there have been talks of other shows that have been delayed until next year. Overall, a great start to Marvel’s next phase. There are also other movies that are not Marvel but I would really love (and hope) to see. There is the Super Mario Bros. movie, Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse (yes this is a Marvel movie, but Sony has the rights to the Spider-man franchise), and the live-action Disney film, The Little Mermaid. A lot of movies and shows are coming out this year, and hopefully I have time to see most of them.

While all of this is happening, I will continue to post regularly on this blog. You will notice that I will be doing fewer posts because I will be working most of the time. However, I am also focusing on the quality of posts rather than quantity. With that being said, I have some interesting topics that I will be writing about like my experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, posts about mental health, and I will be re-releasing my old blogs posts I wrote during my study abroad experience in college. And of course, I will post my reviews of Marvel phases 3-4. Again, if there are topics you want me to write about, feel free to DM me on the Instagram @pressure.shock or contact me here.

Overall, those are my thoughts on the new year and turning 25. There are some exciting things I am looking forward to, along with some challenges I will encounter along the way. Hopefully, this year will be better than the last one. I will probably do another review at the end of this year to see how it turned out. I also hope you have a good year as well. Thank you to those who check out this blog and follow its Instagram page, I really appreciate it. Have a happy and safe new year (even though it is almost the end of January by the time this gets published).