Girl guide blog!

Hi! I am in my early twenties navigating the amazing thing we know to be ‘girlhood’. I’m still trudging my way through the twisted twenties, and I highly doubt I’m qualified enough to be handing out advice, but I have so many thoughts and feelings about being a girl in this crazy time and want to share my experiences, thoughts, advice, and hopefully help someone.

To me, being a girl is:

• Making a new playlist at 2 in the morning that matches a very specific scenario I put in my head
• Spending the entire day sitting around waiting until 7pm when drinks with the girls are
• Making hundreds of Pinterest boards about my ‘dream wedding’, ‘dream house’, ‘dream garden’, ‘dream holiday’
• Somehow falling asleep to the most graphic and disturbing true crime documentary
• Saving thousands of TikToks about places I NEED to go to…..but then never do
• Picking up a shirt in a store and saying “OMG this is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.” and then putting it back
• Watching a new tv show or movie and then change my entire personality to be like the main character
• When getting refunded for something it’s basically free money
• Similarly, when I pay with cash I basically got it for free
• Thinking you look so hot in the jeans you tried on in the store, only to find you look like an ogre when you try them on at home
• Having an everything shower and feeling like you ran a marathon afterwards

Being a girl is great, although there are also MANY negative sides, like:

• Being catcalled for the first time when you are 12 years old, or younger
• Realising you haven’t been catcalled nearly as much since you turned over 18
• Having a period
• Having to be WAY more cautious about birth control than men
• Being scared to be alone outside at night
• Having to convince others you’re not a prude or a slut, but somewhere acceptable in the very small middle area
• Learning how mean girls can really be to other girls
• Feeling like friends are just trial and error
• Finding the right bra size
• Having hormones that make you feel like 10 different people
• The eternal struggle of trying to subtly let a man know you are in fact NOT flirting
• And the list goes on…

Through my infinite wisdom and clearly very experienced life (😬), I hope that you might find some comfort in this blog.

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XOXO