I'm glad you are feeling better, Rox. Those are some amazing photos. I can't help but be jealous of your oppurtunity to be so close to such awesome animals. especially the wolves and big cats. but I'm glad you got to.
I'm not gonna yell at ya. the twenties seem to shoot by so quick. I'll be 30 in less than a year and I feel kinda like I'm where I should have been when I was about 23-25. *shrug*

wish I could be there to help celebrate your birthday! you better have fun!


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I'm glad you're feeling better. Congratulations on finishing your internship. Keep in touch with those folks. Of the birthdays, I remember 25 and 29 as being kind of rough. I definitely sympathize. Oddly, 30 was easily one of my best birthdays ever. Chin up, I'll see you guys on party day.

It looks like you had the most amazing opportunity to have a relationship with those beautiful animals... I am more than a little jealous, I've always wanted to be close to a big cat.

I hope your birthday is fucking awesome to make up for the fact that you're unimpressed about 25.

You worked with lions, bears, tigers and wolves. Definitely something many people cant scratch off their list at 24!

Very cool.

those are all so cool! the tiger and lion are pretty!

Lions, tigers and bears! oh my!

I'm so fucking jealous of your summer job. All those animals are incredible to look at, but I'm bettin' that doesn't hold a candle to getting to know them. I think people who think animals don't have emotions and personalities should do that job for a few months. Bet it would change their minds!

When I turned 25 (not quite a year ago), I felt really shitty too. I felt I hadn't done anything, wasn't doing anything, and wasn't going anywhere. It kind of stuck me in a depressive phase, and I havn't really done anything since. Then it occured to me I was forcing myself into realizing my fears, and I'm starting to actually do something. What I'm saying is, let the negative things you're feeling right now point you in a positive direction. You're learning what you don't wanna be/do, so you're figuring out where you're supposed to go!

And it made me feel really fucking OLD!!! Quarter life crisis, I guess!

Love the feline pics- especially Montana.
Aaaaah.
The question to ask is not what have you acheived but are you happy?
If you're happy you've done well. If not you've got a long time left to get there!

I'm happy to hear you laughed. Don't stop.
I have a friend that is eight years older than I am. He told me that when you turn 25 that it all goes to Hell. Damn it if the night I turned 25 I didn't find myself sitting on a bucket in an alley revisiting a helluva lot of whiskey. Okay so maybe I drank too much and it had nothing to do with age. I'll say this though, I may not be able to knock them down like I used to, but I'm much happier with the wisdom I've gained.

Those animals are beautiful. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Happy advance birthday! I'm far away for a few weeks so I couldn't make it. Have a drink or two for me.

I think you've accomplished quite a lot. Of course, people say that about me too...it's hard to believe it sometimes, particularly if things are going crappy.