First blogpost ever and I have no idea where to start, but every show has to start with an introduction, right?
Therefore let me introduce myself:
Hi I am Johanna, 21 years old and I have been a lot on this world in 21 years. I was a baby and a child to my parents. I was a serious child but always joking around with my brothers and sisters. I have been a little sister to all five of them. I was a scholar, a know-it-all, a horse girl, a child being mocked for my crooked teeth. I was an ER Case and have seen the inside of a hospital more often than I would have preferred during my childhood. I have been a patient and a textbook rare case to my doctors. I was a date, a best friend and I hope to believe a crush for some people.
Right now I am a twenty something literature and english student with a huge ass flat in Bielefeld, trying to figure out what I am and where I belong. And how everything I was in the past contributed to this.
That´s not easy, because now I am everything at once.
I still am a child to my parents and a little sister to most of my siblings.
But I am also an older sister, a tenant, a driver, a student and a therapist for my friends, the same as they are one for me. Technically I am a grown up. Before the law I am an adult.
I can rent my own apartment, I can generate an income, I can buy everything I want to (at least thats what I tell myself) , I can drive my own car and I can go out whenever, wherever I want to.
Though sometimes I feel like a child that dresses as an adult. I feel like an imposter for doing all this stuff my parents do too, because I am still a kid.
I still feel like I do something forbidden if I eat cereal for dinner. I procrastinate with the innocence of a child that has nothing else to do except to go outside and enjoy the sun.
I don’t care if I am oversharing here. I am sure most of you, who are twenty-something, can relate to this on some level.
And this is what this blog is about.
Every detail of this being and every broad recognition that comes with this. This is art, this is therapy, this is everything you once felt and every thought you might have had.
These are the tales of my twenties (and maybe some of yours).
Enjoy!