Hello Darlings,
After writing a congratulations on a baby card for a close friend overseas, and while getting ready for a bachelorette party, it finally hit me: my friends and I have grown up! Quite a bold statement but it also got me thinking, everyone does grow old but how many actually grow up?
Too much school work is no longer a real concern and never gets discussed at a dinner table. University and post-graduate school is just a mere stepping stone and not a life itself. As some friends are planning a wedding, others are preparing for their first child and some are moving away— it is amazing how different last year was.
Last year at this time, if someone would have suggested WLG and social media would become my career, I would have laughed. Instead, here I am doing what I love and enjoying most of the time working for myself. Such a crazy thought, that I become a business owner and self-employed but at the same time it’s a wicked feeling Minus, the accounting stuff! Although my plans were thrown off course by a car accident years ago, it made me learn that life never goes according to plan. So, try to stay flexible because things do happen for a reason, even if that reason is impossible to see.
I AM WEARING:
Zara Láme Sweater
Club Monaco Zowie Skirt
Mackage Peaches Jacket
La Baccarina Leather and Suede Thigh High Boots
Michael Kors Watch
Coach Madison Leather Lindsey Satchel
With New Years just days away, I am excited as to what next year might bring, but also terrified as to what it might not. I am sure that there's more fashion and shoes to come, and guarantee lots more travel and life stories that will be coming your way. This is my first year as a career woman and no longer a student. Although going back to graduate school (part-time, of course!) for business is not far from my mind, I will never be a student again. That thought alone is terrifying.
Therefore to my fair ladies in school, enjoy your time as students and take the time to appreciate it because outside of a campus is a world that is at once terrifying yet exhilarating. Do not be afraid to go after what you love because at the end of the day, your career is what will give you the life that you want. Dream big, work hard and love even harder.
Celebrate promotions,weddings, babies, house-warmings and success wholeheartedly because life does happen when you’re busy making other plans
With Love…
Marta
What a fabulous post! I feel the same way with only a semester left as a student and it is terrifying! Here’s hoping that the years outside of college are even greater for us!
Eternally yours,
Stephanie
Thank you for this wonderful post Marta. It is very true that unexpected things happen in life and throw you off course. I need to get a control of my life, and this post was what I needed to hear
Marta, I remember feeling just this way when I finished my Masters a year and a half ago. And, since I just got married last month, and a few of my classmates are doing the same, it really does feel like we’re all growing up! It was scary when I gave up the student world at first, but it’s wonderful now that I’m independent of deadlines and classes and the whole world is open to me to do anything I choose.
By the way, I believe you and I are very close in age, so it makes sense that we’re feeling the same thing at around the same time!
(I’m 23) Gorgeous outfit, too.
Dear Leia,
Congratulation on your elopement! I very much enjoyed looking at the image from the weddings and the honeymoon.
We are in fact the same age, I am also 23
Definitely very easy to relate.
Well said, Marta. Especially the “stay flexible” part of it…
I am proud of how far you’ve come (I’ve been following you for about 2 years now, I think), of the voice you’ve developed, and of your professional accomplishments. I hope this new year brings you even more goodies… and no more car accidents, damn it!
Thank you so much Sasha, that is very kind of you!
Hi Marta, just found your blog & really love your style & the way you write. First of all that Zara sweater & those boots are just perfect, I’m a gold addict
& it’s so true & crazy how so many things can change in only one year. My boy & I just moved in together after being together for 8 years & so have lots of our closest friends. Now I’m looking for a new job, it’s a scary & excited experience at the same time 
I wish you all the luck in the world!!