Hey there! My name is Divya. I like to make people chuckle with overly long sentences.

I turned twenty about five months ago, so it seems a bit unfair to my fairly un-angsty teenage years to keep using the old “Another Teenager’s Time Capsule” blog for my future writing. It does still exist, however, as I am reminded by e-mails telling me that a stranger has left an irrelevant comment on one of my posts. The feeling of glee that someone had noticed my writing died when I read that it was written in characters that I can only hope make up a legitimate language.

Circling back, my old blog is still existent, so head on over there if you want to catch some shockingly long sentences peppered with witty one-liners that I sweated profusely to come up with.

I have not written anything of my own accord in more time than I would like. I’m starting this new blog the same way I did the old one: a summer project that I learned a lot from. This project comes after an eye-opening two years away at college and away from home. Although I came back home quite a few times in the two years, many of my peers know that one day in the middle of the semester can often feel like five hundred. A 24-hour day is simply not a thing of the 21st century. I’m very much over the third-rate scam that that is the 24-hour day.

Things have changed. People are doing things now— amazing, inspirational things that sometimes make me want to improve myself and other times roll me up like a little messy sushi in a corner. Muscles have comically ballooned and vocabulary has sharpened itself. My friends can drive cars legally now and have raised the bar for most illegal shots consumed. People are writing, traveling, filming, recording, quizzing, marketing, singing, running student bodies, painting, earning, growing, improving. I myself bought gym clothes yesterday, if you didn’t already absorb the extent of change.

This blog will be how I deal with all of the above. Thanks for making it this far— we’ve all come a long way. Some of us without a car or bike.