She calmly tells me "You're feeding your soul". Correct. I am not out buying clothes (which I really, really, really wish I had extra money to go do!); I am spending my money on things I am passionate about. Experiences that I want to be a part of who I am. That's what this is all about anyway, right?
I recall having my "quarter-life crisis" a year early. I was recently single at 24 and felt so lost. I wasn't the same person then as when I entered the relationship, whether I knew it at the time or not.
Little did everyone know, at that point I had decided to pack up and move cross-country to the west coast.
However, "24" wasn't just a year of rediscovery for me. It was the beginning. A turning point in my life. It was one of those milestones that people don't actually celebrate, but I'll never forget it.