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You do things that make you seem like a fully capable
adult, like paying electricity bills for your apartment and
being a full-time intern at an actual office and cooking
your own dinner every single night.
But you are also still young enough that your family
sends you care packages of cookies because this is your
first time living alone. And though you have 20 years of
life experience, it isn’t enough to make you stop eating
those cookies even when you are full.
This is how I came to find myself lying with my face
pressed to the cool tiles of my bathroom floor thinking
I was going to puke. It was because I ate an ungodly amount
of cookies, while standing alone in the kitchen of my
apartment, from a package my sister sent me, before
I had even been home long enough to take off my
work shoes.
I had a lot of time languishing dramatically on the
bathroom floor to really reflect upon my behavior.
WHEN YOU ARE 20, IT SOUNDS OLD BUT DOESN’T FEEL LIKE IT AT ALL.
I was sweating and breathing heavily with my face
inches from the vent in the floor to absorb the pitiful
amounts of air-condition being emitted. While mentally
preparing myself to ralph, I could only think, “I cannot
believe that in two full decades of life I haven’t learned
when I have eaten too many cookies.”
It was a very sad realization; an actual low moment
as a I lay curled near the toilet clad in my entire “young
professional” ensemble.
There are few things more pathetic than lying on the
floor of your bathroom realizing you are going to literally
toss your cookies. And that is kind of what it is like being
20, you are either pretending you are an independent
adult or doing things characteristic of most two-year-olds
because you just aren’t sure you can be on your most
responsible behavior all the time. In my case, that thing
was eating 8 cookies in 15 minutes. And throwing up
8 cookies, 15 minutes later.
8 COOKIES
15 MINUTES
This is a basically true retelling of events that
happened to Delaney Lundquist in the summer of
2012. A little dramatic exaggeration for the sake
of the story never hurt anyone.
Delaney is a junior Communication Design student
at Washington University in St. Louis and created this
spread for Digital Adventure in the fall of 2012.