Quarter of a Century…

This post is about me turning the ripe old age of 25. Okay, I do realise it’s not that old but half my 20’s have gone now. However, it is safe to say that I have achieved more in my 20’s than I have in the rest of my life and so (hopefully) my late 20’s will allow me to accomplish loads too. I feel that’s a more positive way of looking at it!

My life is currently progressing quite rapidly, getting married etc., so right now I feel pretty awesome about where I’m at in my life. However, I feel like there will be an opportunity cost with the decisions I’m making now, in that they will end up restricting me in the future and my options may be limited (not relating to my future husband – I love that man so goddamn much)! To help me control that though, I’m just focusing on the benefits of the decisions I’m making now so I can focus on the positive!

This being said, you should not, by any means, let your age define you or where you are in life. It gets so annoyingly easy (thank you social media) to compare yourself to others who are the same age as you and think “Why am I not where they are?”, “What are they doing that I’m not?”, etc. You are not restricted by your age, if you want to do something or learn something then just go out and do it!

You could graduate at age 22 or age 50 – you still get a degree.

You could get married at age 25 or age 30 – you’ll still be married.

You could land your dream job at age 23 or age 35 – you still got your dream job.

I get that sometimes you set yourself a deadline of where you want to be by what age. The important thing you need to do if that age passes and that goal isn’t met is:

1. See if the goal was too large and your time-frame was too small;
2. Try to understand why that goal wasn’t met;
3. Keep trying until you smash that goal!

Bottom line? Do not compare yourself to others, delete people on social media who make you feel like crap and just do you! Everything will come together in it’s own time and when it does, you’ll be laughing at how worried you were before!

‘Till next time – I will post more, promise!

(Also, I am aware that I said that last time, but I mean it this time)!

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