Thoughts on Turning 30

Now that my 30th birthday has come and passed, I have had some time to reflect back on the last 30 years of my life. To be honest, I was not looking forward to the big 3-0. It wasn’t that I thought my life was going to change radically the day I turned 30. Rather, I think it was more of the psychological aspect of not being able to say I was in my twenties and therefore being “old.” As I think about it now, we don’t have to grow old. Yes, our bodies will age, but we can always stay young at heart. We can choose to dwell on the aging of our bodies or we can choose enjoy everything this life has to offer. We can choose to always stop and smell the roses (or even roll in the roses for that matter) along the journey of life or we can trample blindly through them in our self-pity and bitterness. I hope I will always choose to roll through the roses.

As I think back on the last 30 years of my life, I realize I really have no regrets. Yes, there are things I haven’t accomplished and I am not really in a place I thought I would be at this age, but I have learned so much and I have been so blessed. While the journey thus far has had its fair share of ups and downs, overall it has been good. I did think that I would be married, maybe have children, and be finished my schooling by this time, but that isn’t what was meant for me in my first 30 years. I know there are great things to come and I am honestly looking forward to what the future holds. So to all of you who have not yet reached the big 3-0, it isn’t so bad. It is just the end of one chapter of life and the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in this great journey we call life.