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Pilot Jones – Frank Ocean + Untitled Aug 4, 2025 12:47 AM – Mujee<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling like the first person ever in the world to be 24 (such a 24-year-old thing to say, Ik, but it\u2019s true!!). I don\u2019t really have a through line for this entry, but I do have a hulking, cumbersome burden I want to attempt to put into words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Listing all of the things that 24 feels like: fresh, expansive, overwhelming, unknown, mundane, transient, uncompromising, uncomfortable, moving at the speed of light but also at the pace of molasses at the same time, fun, and flirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t add the caveat that these are just my own thoughts and feelings because, well, this is my blog. However, I do want to acknowledge a certain degree of specificity, even within my generalizations. That\u2019s the other thing about 24: everyone is living a different version of it<\/mark>. Some people are married with kids, some are in school, some are in the full 9-to-5 bussdown gigs, some are unemployed. Being in your twenties is a spectrum. And maybe that\u2019s part of what is so uncomfortable\u2026 (starting to cook with some grease). Maybe the fact that there are so many \u201cways\u201d to be 24 makes me feel like the way I\u2019m doing it is wrong. Ehh, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m feeling; I don’t feel like I\u2019m doing it \u201cwrong,\u201d per se, as much as I feel like I\u2019m doing it alone (THERE IT IS).<\/mark> I have oodles of friends in transitional periods in their lives (the majority of us are in our twenties, and early twenties at that), but I don\u2019t know anyone who is in the same situation as me, and that feels isolating, scary, and overwhelming.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like there\u2019s this notion placed on people who can be perceived as different in a positive and creative way\u2014that there\u2019s an anchor or commonwealth of confidence that the person is drawing from. Candidly, as I am speaking about myself, sometimes this is true. I\u2019ve always been someone who, if confident in their choices, never thought twice about whether or not those choices were revered. It\u2019s easy to feel nervelessly confident in my aesthetic and seemingly inconsequential choices, such as my style or personal desires. I\u2019ve done that for years. But I find that entering another arena, where I can maintain that same confidence in my ideas and creativity, is much more convoluted.
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(Lowkey realizing this shoulda been a journal entry, but we\u2019re N 2 Deep, and we\u2019re making progress. I\u2019m not gonna stunt that cuz I\u2019m afraid of being perceived.) Personal reminder: No matter how original your experience feels, out of the 8.3 billion people we share a planet with, it’s astronomically statistically unlikely that every single part of your experience is original, even if it\u2019s new to you. That doesn’t diminish your reality, but it does make it less alienating, at least I find.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But alas, I am faced with the obstruction that paints every interpretation for the rest of eternity: perspective<\/em>.<\/mark> As someone with a historical predilection for pessimism and negativity, I have to be diligently cognizant of my mindset. Reading this back, I see the pattern repeating in my thoughts: where I experience fear, I experience doubt. <\/mark>HEY NOW, who\u2019s been with me since the first entry!?!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zooming out from the destination I’ve arrived upon, I have two options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 1: <\/mark>View the unknown and the uncomfortable through the lens of estrangement and anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 2:<\/mark> View the unknown and uncomfortable through a lens of autonomy and courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are never without the power of choice, even if we don\u2019t like our options!! The deadliest assuagement of growth is comfort. Comfort is a luxury, not an entitlement (in the sense that, too often, we mistake discomfort for suffering and growth for danger. Basic comfort is a right in the sense of human rights tho, don\u2019t get it twisted.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But fr, my thought process is stemming from a place of lack when I associate being different with being wrong.<\/mark> Part of this, too, is breaking away from the chronormative narrative that we are fed our entire lives: accepting that not everyone is going to funnel (and I don\u2019t even want to, tbh) onto the same pre-allocated path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So be okay with doing shit different and being on some different typa time! Having confidence in your choices goes beyond the external layers of truth and validation, delving into the seams of your belief. Unwavering confidence stems from belief, not truth. Do you believe that you\u2019re on the right path, Mary-Elizabeth (lowk the answer is yes!!)? Then stop allowing doubt and rejection to besmirch the purity and potency of your belief.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And never forget that Frank Ocean wrote and released channel ORANGE (aka one of the greatest albums of the last millennium) at 24. You are capable of great things even in the midst of the unknown!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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