It’s been a long time since we’ve chatted - you & me - in a long form caption... I miss this. Last week I hosted a dinner party with friends from all different pockets of my life; childhood, college, my college roommates’ childhood, friends I met online, friends my roommate met at work who are now my friends (you get the gist) Looking around the table my heart both sunk and soared a little because watching all of my friends getting along so easily, talking about this bosses from their big girl jobs and failed dates they had been on... it felt like real adulthood. And I guess this is the first time I’ve paused in a while and gone “wow. I guess I AM an adult. And I DO very adult things everyday.” Truthfully I think I’ve been so busy living LIFE, twirling and swirling around in the first year post grad in New York City chaos whirlpool that I haven’t made much time to reflect in this way. This past year has probably been one of the least introspective periods of my life. I don’t have any of it written down in a journal and I don’t spend too much time overanalyzing the choices I’ve made. The old me would have been so upset that I didn’t journal through my first year in NYC, and maybe future me will be too. But the thing is — this past year I have felt so present and so fulfilled, and I hope these memories are etched in my brain a little deeper because of it (If not I have 896,703 photos to remind myself) Anyways— I hope this post inspires you to have a dinner party with your own collection of people. You may just find some much needed self-reflection floating around between bits and bobs of conversation that change from dinner party to dinner party as they mirror each season of life.