“A girl who learned to put herself first & say no to the people and things that no longer made her happy.”

As I sit in the dark, the night before my birthday, I sit and reflect on my life. Where I am. And where I thought I would be by the end of this year.

I sit and ask myself a series of questions…
Have I accomplished everything I wanted to do this year? No.

Did I even get half of it done? No.

But what I can say is that the person who I longed to become that seemed so far away… I have and am becoming her…

A girl who learned to put herself first, and say no to the people & things that didn’t make her happy. A girl who decided to be wild and leave everything behind to do what brings her the most joy & make her feel alive. A girl who made the choice to choose to love EVERYONE regardless of race, sexual orientation, political views, and religion. A girl who stopped trying to please other people. A girl who stopped caring about opinions unless it was her own.

This past year, just like for anyone else has been a battlefield; filled with lots of pain, anxiety, tears, lonely nights but without it I wouldn’t have the strength, the love and new meaning for life that I now have.

I look forward to this new year of being 24! I come into this new year of birth attached to nothing and open to everything.

Blessed to live 24 & counting years.