25

25:

• a natural number following 24 and preceding 26
• the 2oth anniversary of my kindergarten year
• Manganese
• silver anniversary
  
• min. age of candidate for the House of Representatives
• the size of a full roster on a major league baseball team
• 1/4 of a U.S. dollar
• quarter of a century

1925:

• Mussolini takes over Italy
• the New Yorker magazine is first published
• F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatesby
• U.S. turmoils over Darwin's theory of evolution
• Hitler published Mein Kampf
• double decker busses are introduced in London
• Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke are born
• "The Phantom of the Opera" opened at movie theaters
• Earl Wise invented the potato chip

For me, 25 is

• being 5 more than 20, and not feeling it
• an age I thought that I'd never reach
• time to graduate from BYU and close this chapter of my life
• start a new chapter of life in Alabama

This year I turn a quarter of a century old and I have lived 1/3 of my expected lifespan. The learning and changes I anticipate this year will hold should be incredible.