All That You Need Will Surely Come

On Summiting Your Twenties, Maintaining Balance in a Frightened Society & Reaching Your Highest Mountain (Despite All Odds)

This one strays a little from my usual trail talk and gear recs. It’s more personal and much longer. Call it a field guide of sorts… what I’ve learned through the long, messy miles of my twenties about keeping your footing in a frightened world, and choosing to climb anyway.

I'm sitting in the public library of my hometown, just a stone's throw from the high school I graduated from in 2013. I’ll be thirty this year. It’s a strange landing point, approximately a thousand miles from the place I called home only a week ago.

Poetic, though; I’ll give it that. This was once my launch pad.

My big sister, Allison, used to bring me here when I was younger. Despite being a boisterous kid, I revered the library as sacred. Both Allison and my Aunt Janelle fueled my love for reading, taking me to every library and bookstore in the tri-county area. They taught me that knowledge is its own kind of power.

You don’t get to choose the memories that surface, but I’m glad those ones stuck with me. Nothing much has changed here at the library, not even the musty green sofa chairs or the archaic-looking plastic oak tree towering over the children’s reading nook. These remain steadfast in the annals of my brain as well as in the here and now.

I’ve changed, though—so thoroughly, in fact, that I sometimes wonder if this place would recognize me at all.

Have you ever revisited a place from your past, only to find it doesn't fit anymore?

Not because it shrank, but because you grew.

The following reflections mark the start of a new series, one that steps beyond trail markers into the denser terrain of lived experience. I’ll be sharing more of the lessons that shaped me in my twenties and the perspective I’m carrying into what comes next.

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