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Sara R Jones's avatar

My 30s were hard because I had to figure out who I was, since I'd spent all of my 20s doing the Right Thing As Told To Me By Other People. But my 30s were also an exciting time of... figuring out who I was. Happy birthday! It's a big thing to face the sadness and own it.

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Amy Makechnie's avatar

You may not like writing about this, but boy is it powerful! I have saved several of your newsletters to show my young adult children. I'll include this. Life gets better, I promise (though I'm 48 and still have a great deal of angst about, well, just about everything...maybe that's what helps us find our bliss :) Ah, to live. Thank you, thank you. This is real and true.

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Frank and Buddy's avatar

30s are great and not great. Great because I feel I know myself more but not great because I'm so much more self aware! Maybe we should make that into our own webcomic... lol happy belated birthday!

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E. Sjule's avatar

Happy belated! I love these memoir comics, they're very relatable.

I re-read my old diaries from my college/post-college years recently and was shocked to remember/realize how depressed I was at this age too.

Thank goodness we learned to lean into cartooning: The solution to all things, lol.

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Rachel Beyer's avatar

Can't wait to read the rest of this. Very relatable. Thanks for sharing Zoe.

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Luke Newell's avatar

Wonderful! Happy birthday, and thankyou for sharing.

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Pop's avatar

Love the vulnerability in this so much, and it connected me to my own sad teens / early 20s (albeit for different reasons), and how I used to love celebrating my birthday but how that shifted in the past few years to an anxiety-inducing loneliness… I felt less alone reading this.

Happy birthday! Keep going!

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Peace's avatar

Shared reality in so many panels, I have needs met of authenticity, truth, discovery, dreams, and determination.

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