Being home most of my free time during this Covid Pandemic has given me A LOT of time to think about who I am and where I am striving to go. One place I am 10,000% sure I do not want to go back to is the past. People tell me all the time how shocked they are when they hear my son is 15 years old. I often get the response “When did you have him? When you were 12?!!” The conversation then leads to how young I look and often a reminiscent story of how that person felt in their 20s and the desire to re live their high school and college “glory days.” I couldn’t feel further than that thought.

Aging has given me and is STILL giving me a type of freedom that only knowledge and experience can bestow. My best days are literally just happening. I had zero clue who I was or who I wanted to be in the world until after I turned 30. Even though I began to understand who I was after 30, I wasn’t SURE of my life’s passion or the direction I wanted my life to go until my late 30s.

I have always had fun periods throughout my life. Fun and adventure doesn’t stop because you get older unless you stop investing yourself into those categories your life. I will even say I have way more fun now than ever before. I have more knowledge, freedom, Financial liberty and strength to express who I am more now than ever. My past experiences have taught me boundaries to live within and boundaries to keep others from encroaching on my happiness. Without a hard divorce, friends who have hurt me, experiences of me hurting other people, jobs that I disliked, jobs that I loved, boyfriends who have made my heart swoon and others that weren’t ready to settle down- I wouldn’t be where I am today or WHO I am today. Even though I am glad I learned these lessons, I have zero desire to turn back the click and re learn them! Looking 28 is a combination of nutrition, self care, good genes and other of water. Looking 28 is one thing, I pass on being 28 again.

The tricky part about life is you have to live through it to earn the stripes of learning the valuable lessons. Keep your health intact the best you can to get the most enjoyment out of each year. It is not easy to remain as healthy as possible but you enjoy travel, concerts, playing outside with your kids when your knees don’t hurt, you don’t get out of breath and you can enjoy your free time. Don’t let high school be your best time because that was the time you could live freely mentally, emotionally and/or physically! Fight for you.

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