I am 26 and I feel like life is flashing before my eyes. It felt like only yesterday I was discussing my first kiss on a bench at school with friends. On that same bench we discussed many topics, one being where we would be in 10 years time. According to that discussion I am now supposed to be married to my soul mate with two children and running a successful company. I couldn't be further from it! I am single, still waiting for my knight in shining armour, (yes I believe everyone has one and you might not meet him/her in this life but you will in one of your life's) children will come with the knight. About this successful company... that dream is still very much alive.
When I compare myself to my friends (I know you shouldn't but you can't help doing it sometimes) I feel like I have not accomplished much or at least not what I thought I would have by now. But then I remind myself that I have lost, I have loved, I have helped, I have traveled, I have studied, I am working, I have laughed till I cried on many occasions, I have hope, dreams, ambition and most importantly I have LIFE.
Nothing happens the way you think it will, one can only plan so far. I never thought that the friends who are engaged would have been the first or that the one who is having a baby boy in two months would have been the first to be knocked up. Such is life! I am learning as I live that you can only do so much and the rest is left to fate / God / a higher being or what ever you want to call it. That is what makes life so exciting, it is so unpredictable.
It doesn't matter where you are in life as long as you are living it and loving it. If you aren't it's time to reassess and make some changes, you are living this life for you and no one else!
I might not have my ducks in a row (expected norm) but I am having a blast getting them in this row.
Listened to Bon Iver - Blindsided and rest of album
