I'm glad you didn't take the internship. It's very easy to be seduced by a cool-sounding job (or city or relationship or anything that on paper seems amazing). I'm 48 and I feel relate to what you wrote, even though I'm in a very different place regarding parenting (going to be adopting, hopefully in the next year). I sometimes look back on my 20s and miss the freedom I felt, but I also so enjoy the much calmer life I have now. I think it's hard to not look back and either feel like we made mistakes or compare then to now, but we grow as people at every stage.
I'm glad you didn't take the internship. It's very easy to be seduced by a cool-sounding job (or city or relationship or anything that on paper seems amazing). I'm 48 and I feel relate to what you wrote, even though I'm in a very different place regarding parenting (going to be adopting, hopefully in the next year). I sometimes look back on my 20s and miss the freedom I felt, but I also so enjoy the much calmer life I have now. I think it's hard to not look back and either feel like we made mistakes or compare then to now, but we grow as people at every stage.