TURNING 27

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My 27th birthday is here! I cannot believe it because I swear I am still just a teenage girl???

No but seriously time has been flying by. It is actually horrifying that my TEN year high school reunion is next year. How was it so long ago that high school ended?

Regardless of my surprise to how truly fast life can go by, I am grateful for all the things I have learned in my twenties thus far.

The importance of friendship has been so important to me my whole life but its really made its biggest impact on me in my late twenties.

How am I in my late twenties already? Does not feel real to say that.

Anyways, as I get older I have really learned how important all my connections are especially the connection with myself. I really don't know how I would be functioning if I never learned that. I talked a lot about my alone time and how pivotal that has been for me in this post, in case you missed it.

I am so grateful that my twenties and all the people I have encountered taught me so many lessons. While some of those lessons have been challenging, uncomfortable, stressful, sad and all the things, I wouldn't change a thing.

I am very much looking forward to what the tail end of my twenties will teach me. If I had to guess, I think this phase of my life is going to, (hopefully), bring me better boundary setting, closer to my purpose, a less anxious mindset, more living in the moment, and ya know hopefully a husband. That would be really wonderful universe. But I am in not in a rush, I know the timing will be right. Easier said than done but I really do believe that.

27 is that weird age, well for one, to me, I think its an ugly number LOL but that's just me. In addition to the ugliness of the number itself, its just a stagnant yet ever changing age. I don't know if anyone else resonates with that. It's like nothing is changing really but also everything could change tomorrow.

I could decide to move abroad for a bit. I could meet the love of my life. I could get my dream job.

While it doesn't feel real that I am 27, I am excited that this year is full of hope and opportunity. I don't want to lean into the despair of getting old and biological clock ticking. While those fears are real and do come up, I can't give them too much weight. It is also such a good reminder that I will never be this age, living this exact life, ever again. So its time to live it up. Decision paralysis gets in my way but I am so gonna fix that this year. Let's say yes more.

Now I gotta get to finishing setting up and prepping for my birthday dinner party this weekend. I am in fullllll swing of getting everything together and I am so excited to see it all come together. I am going to hopefully capture all the memories and decor, so I can share it here on the blog.

To my '96/'97 babies, being 27 is very demure, so lean in.