I'm 30! Why I think its more awesome than 20.

I'm 30!!!!

I started this blog in 2003, when I was 20 years old. Ten years after, I don't really feel much older but I feel so much has happened!
So let's see. In ten years I've:
..graduated college at Ateneo de Manila with a major in Communications and minor in Philosophy
..gone on around 40 trips both within the Philippines and abroad
..seen my brother get married, and grow his own family with wife Tracy and kids Roco and Sabine
..been rejected maybe 100 times at VTRs, castings, and auditions
..gone through three heartbreaks

..made a steady career for myself on television, print, and online, with a number of advocacies
..checked a few things off my bucketlist like meeting Kobe Bryant and going skydiving!


I always thought 30 was so OLD!
Now that I'm 30, I don't feel old at all. I feel like an adult when paying important bills and signing thick documents, but otherwise, I still feel like a kid excited to see the world!


Why being 30 is more awesome than being 20.
Because you can say you've "been there, done that" to problems that you had no idea how you'd get through when you were 20.
Because you've embarrassed yourself and committed booboos enough times to know how to laugh at yourself and not take yourself too seriously.
Because when they say you have to be "whole" before entering a relationship, you kinda know better what it means to be "whole".
Because you need not be too safe with your words and you don't really feel the need to please others all the time. Why? Because you are strong enough to stand by your word and you learn that you really cannot please everyone.
Because by 30, you've probably gone through a point in your life where you lost everything, and you know now that you are strong enough to pick yourself up again and rebuild your life.
Because by now you've sort of figured out the answer to that nagging quarter life crisis question: What is my place in the world?
Because you just know yourself better. :)
I'm not saying I have it all figured out because I don't, but I can say I know how to go about things a bit more.


And now that I'm 30, I intend to enjoy and learn from this phase in my life. And I honestly can't wait to turn 40! I hear its an awesome age too!