Travel Taylor

Hi everyone!

It has been a while since I have wrote my last post. I am now 26 years old and I have been living alone for the past two years. It has been the most freeing experience and I have learned a lot about my self as well as others.

I remember when I was first presented the option of having a one bedroom apartment. I was eager and full of excitement to have my own space to create my new life and fill with wonderful memories. I don’t know many people who are in the same situation as me so I find it may be hard for people to relate to me as an individual. I love my place and it has been easy to call it my home. I love entertaining my friends, having bachelor nights and sleepovers as well as having the luxury of hosting out of town family members and sharing my favorite space with them. It makes me happy having guests over and entertaining so at times it does get lonely.

As a flight attendant, It has been hard to manage my social life, my mental/physical health, personal travel, and my family life. Life has now calmed down since being based in Orlando as of June so now it has been confusing to try to reorient my social life back to normal. Since the diagnosis of my ill grandmother in February, my life has turned upside down. Between work, visiting New York, and settling back into my life back in Florida it has been nothing but chaotic.

Since turning 25 has brought a lot of life lessons, personal growth has been the theme of this year. Balancing new friends and old, connections, and keeping in touch with long distance family has been a struggle. I am slowly increasing my communications as I have more time to reconnect now that I have more downtime with work. I realized and set a boundary with myself that it is okay to unplug from my devices and my real bonds will understand and still value that we all have our daily stuff we deal with. Mental health has been my main priority and removing negative energy from my life. Feeling misunderstood has been a theme and I now understand that the people who care will always want to be here for me and I can’t be everything to everyone and thats okay.

2023 has been a whirlwind and it is already the end of September somehow. Yes we all have our struggles, but I am grateful each and every single day of the fortunate life I live due to my amazing upbringing, education, hard work, and most importantly the support of my parents and family.

I hope everyone who reads this is doing well and don’t be a stranger feel free to reach out 🙂