Wading Through 30

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

Another year, another birthday. It’s days like today when I take a moment to look back at the last 365 days and I’m always astounded at what has taken place in that amount of time. 365 days isn’t a huge span of time. Sure, when you’re a teenager it feels like forever but then you blink and it’s over. Even more so in your twenties and now as I begin to wade through my thirties I realize this increment of time we call a year, is really nothing in the grand scheme.

And yet, in the last year, I did so many things…. I quit a retail job that was fun but draining. I almost started back to school and then changed paths at the last moment. I spent six months working full time on the blog. I traveled to California to spend three weeks in San Francisco. I, yet again, picked up, packed up and moved – this time from Milwaukee to Chicago. I jumped into a new career – leaping feet first into something completely unknown and thrilling. I welcomed my second nephew into the world. And of course there are a million other, little every day things that are significant only to me.

I’m a different person today than I was 365 days ago – and yet I’m the same too. I’ve also come to realize that the 30s aren’t as scary and daunting as I thought they would be. There is a new kind of freedom that comes from being more secure in who you are, where you’re headed, what you want and what you truly need. Here’s to many many more years.

Wading Through 30 is a post from: ModlyChic