28 Reflections

I just spent the afternoon riding my bike around town, in the rain.
Although I am covered in rain water, sweat and mud, I can’t help but feel cleansed.
Maybe it’s because I’m on the heels of my 28th birthday, and I always feel extra emotional around this time, or maybe it’s because the last two years have been a period of huge transformation for me.

From being deeply broken and unhappy, to losing the most important person to me, to completely changing my life.

The passed two years, I have gone to therapy (finally), moved home – which I never wanted to do, as that felt like failing (it wasn’t, it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made), to going back to school and beginning a career path I’ve always dreamed of, to finding a collection of humans – both new and old, who feel more like family than friends, to every day becoming a better version of myself.

While I know life will surely bring me more losses, more trials and tribulations, I can’t help but feel as if I have closed the chapter on a dark part of my life, in which I felt lost and alone, and am opening the door to this next chapter; much more exciting, much more optimistic and much less chaotic.

P.S. you don’t have to wait for tragedy to strike to change your life. There is no time like the present. Don’t waste a lifetime being unhappy.