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| Taken on my 35th birthday. thanks, AmyG |
Except this year.
Whenever my birthday approaches, I usually make these elaborate lists of things I want to do in the next year - goals I want to accomplish, places I want to see, things I want to do. I get really detailed and technical, outlining plans and defining milestones.
Except this year.
I started to really analyze why I was feeling this way - it's just so weird for me. But even that took me way more inside my head than I wanted to be.
And so I decided to just go with it.
I'm truly happier than I have ever been. Yes, there are struggles. Yes, there are bad days and hard times. Yes, I get frustrated and lonely and tired. But underneath all of that, at the very center of myself, I feel a deep and abiding sense of goodness, of peace and of gratitude. I feel more comfortable in my skin than I have ever been, and I feel more alive and whole than I have ever felt.
I'm finding that it's really a beautiful way to live.
So I have decided to just keep doing what I'm doing...living the life that makes me happy and gives me so many moments of joy and light. To keep focusing on putting first things first and living a healthy and simple life.
It's working for me.
Why mess with a good thing, right?
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| both of us on our birthday - have I mentioned that I love this girl? |
4 comments:
you're gorgeous girl!
it's so funny. all week i've had this whole weird thing going on with analyzing my life and doubting my happiness and calm. it seems like we can't accept it for what it is and enjoy it, we're waiting for that other shoe to drop. maybe we've lived with anxiety and fear and the like for so long we're flummoxed by loving the life we have without it....don't know. but we'll discuss on our 7 hour drive on Wednesday. cannot wait. seriously.
What a beautiful place to be. I love you much and am blessed to have you in my life.
xoxo
It *is* a beautiful place to be. I can't wait to hug you on Wednesday. xo
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