Today is my 39th birthday. Ordinarily, I would keep that fact to myself. Not because I am worried about my age or anything like that, but I’m not the type of person that likes all the attention. Lord help me if someone tells the waitstaff at a restaurant and they all come out to sing. I will turn four shades of red and wish I could make myself invisible.
This year feels different to me. I have learned the miracle that a healthy birth and life truly is and I am embracing that. I have always known that I was placed here for a purpose, and in the last year my purpose has become even more crystal clear. As I take my final trip around the sun in my 30s, I do so planning to appreciate every day that I have been given — even the hard ones. I will strive to spread kindness into this world that can be not so kind and be the very best version of myself.
