Mia, 17

1. 1my best friend
2. 2the right to change my mind
3. 3sleep
4. 4my grandmother's ring
5. 5learning things I don't need to
6. 6being able to say 'I don't know'

honest · not afraid of my own quiet · someone who finishes things · curious without being anxious · warmer than I thought · loves people out loud

Relationships

three people I can call at 2am. I know their parents' names.

Studying

still — probably philosophy, and how to make bread.

Work

writing something, for someone, that pays enough. not sure what yet.

Sustain myself

rent covered · one nice meal a week · a savings account that doesn't scare me.

Health

sleep 8h most nights. walk every day. know what winter does to me.

Places

Kyoto in spring · home, always.

Wake

7:30 with the light

Sleep

11:30 most nights

Move

walk every day · yoga 3×/week

How I eat

slowly, at a table, with hands sometimes

Screen time

phone in the other room after 10pm

IRL time

Sunday dinner with someone I love

Reading

30 min a night

Money rhythms

save 20% · spend on people, food, books

Learning now

Spanish · writing essays · how to listen without interrupting

Paid for (eventually)

something only I'd do for free — maybe teaching, maybe writing

• 2024finished high school early · fell out with J
• 2025Edinburgh · first real heartbreak
• 2026this year — quitting things that drain me
• 2027ahead · find a mentor · write 50k words
• 2028ahead · travel alone for the first time

Already

my grandmother's street · Lisbon at 6am · Rome with rain

Still pulling

Kyoto in April · Iceland · a small Greek island

things future-me will be proud I wrote at 17

1. learn to freedive
2. fall in love without holding back
3. publish something I'd read myself
4. adopt a rescue dog
5. pay for my mother's first trip abroad
6. live for a year somewhere the winter is harder than here