03/25/2025
🎈 Aging is such a privilege. It’s only our silly, appearance-obsessed world that we are made to feel bad about not being “cool,” not knowing the “trends,” having wrinkles, imperfect magazine-edited bodies, and being somehow less relevant because we aren’t 22 anymore. Aging is a privilege. If you question the things happening to you that make you “look old,” ask yourself why. Then why again. And again. We’ve been conditioned to fear aging so we buy stuff that stops or slow the process. That’s literally it. If we feel good about ourselves, our bodies, and our aging — there’d be nothing to sell us!!!! Our whole lives were told it’s time to “grow up” like being young is a bad thing…….and then once we ARE grown up, it’s like…WOAH, not THAT grown..now you’re VISIBLY old, that sucks for you. Look younger. 👀
So now it’s time to ACTUALLY grow up (and wake up) and realize…the best is yet to come. With age comes wisdom, experience, knowledge, self-awareness, growth, confidence…and like the ability to do WHATEVER you want, whenever you decide. I remember a time I was DYING to have those freedoms.
Anyway, today I will not downplay or be pessimistic about my age (37 babe!!! What an honour!!!) and I will not do what I have done nearly every year since I turned 30 when someone mentions “how old we are getting” (which is usually miming this emoji: 🤮) — and I will sit in appreciation for how far I’ve come, for the people in my life, for my family, my home, my job, my dog, and what a gift it is to wake up every day, get out of bed, hug my kid and my partner, eat delicious food and exist in this world.
LOVE YA!!!!! Xoxoxoxox
