It is hard for me to believe that I am actually THIRTY. I mean on the inside I feel like a naive 24 year old. At times when I look back at all that I have done, what I have been through I realize I have lived and have experienced life. Not always how I would have like, but I feel I have learned from my mistakes (most of the time). However, I find myself stagnant in areas. Like I am waiting for someone else to do the work for me. So much of myself I want to reinvent and do better…more selfless, happier, positive, confident, and to rise above the pressures I put on myself. Perhaps that’s what my thirties will be about. Taking my core and making it stronger. I know there is a great confident person inside of me it just doesn’t always get to show itself. I am determined in 10 years, when I’m forty, to really love what I see. No matter the circumstances I find my life in.
Amy, it’s Book Club Amy. (I’m too lazy to figure out how to add a profile picture.) I’m turning 30 this year and I have the same hopes. I really think one’s 20s are for learning and the 30s are for getting it right. Not that we don’t keep learning about life and who we want to be, but the 20s have such a large amount of changes. We graduate from college, work, marry, have children, buy houses, start saving for the future (if we’re lucky!) that it’s hard to apply everything we’ve learned until we’ve made it through the whilwind. Have a great 3rd decade! You’ve earned it.
I think you’re right about making the 30’s great. The 20’s absolutely suck (in my opinion). It’s such a weird time of figuring things out, not fitting in with your own life, and not knowing what to do. I think the 30’s are the start of feeling comfortable in your own skin. It’s an amazing feeling (even if it’s not all the time), and a huge blessing. I hope the 30’s are great for you.
Hmm.. I’m turning 35 in March, so if the 30s are about getting it right, I’d better get a move on! I too would love to love what I see at 40. (LOVE the picture of you blowing out the candles! I never seem to capture that so well.)