Today is my birthday; I’m one year older. So far it’s been a great birthday…and I got presents. That doesn’t really happen to often. And I had a fun trip with my best friends the past two weekends.
Many things have happened in this past year. It’s weird how things change in a year. This time last year The Geek and I had just gotten back together and we decided to take it slow. Almost for months later, he was moving in; two weeks later he was proposing marriage and three months later we were married. So much for taking slow, but everything happens for a reason right?
Growing older was something that I was afraid of because it’s put in our brains that we must accomplish certain things by a certain age. We are told to go to college, get a job, get married, buy a house, have a child…and whatever else. I was afraid to grow older and not have these things, but last year I had to make a change. I had to stop worrying about those things because I let those things cloud my life and scare me into growing older. And then my life changed. I stopped being afraid and I started living my life the way I was supposed to and things started to fall into place.
I’ve taken a great appreciation for my life: my relationships with friends and family, the great job that I have and I’m so open for the future it’s not even funny. I’ve also wanted to improve my relationship with my mother. It’s always work work work with us and it’s hard to have a personal relationship when you work with your parents. Casual conversations even turn into work conversations and that’s not fun. The older I get the more important it is to cherish those types of relationships.
My birthday isn’t over yet and the fun hasn’t even begun yet, but I just wanted to talk about how things have changed in a year.
