On the (B)Right Side

25.

It's a pretty important age. By now, it seems, most people have finished a degree, have gotten married, have had kids (or are starting to have them), have a house. Now people seem to have traveled more, seen more, done more, learned more, earned more, all before or just as they hit 25. Then you're supposed to be grown up.

At 27, I spent a considerable time feeling I was on the wrong side of 25. I finished my degree late (I worked my way through university) during which I contemplated switching majors at least 4 times , got married at 25 and convocated the same year. I have been to Dominican (twice) and Cancun (for the Honeymoon). No kids, no big job to go to, and my house is a starter home, whereas (it seems) kids on the other side of 25 are getting those wonderful homes we had wanted to buy.

It took some time for me to get past this feeling that I had wasted a lot of time. I'm still working on, to be truthful.

Yet lately I've been thinking... this side of 25 isn't so bad. I've done a lot already. I'm back in school for my 2nd degree. I'm still learning who I am, and who I'll become. Who says I need to figure out everything in the span of 5-7 short years? I had my plans, my goals, and I acheived them.

There's a benefit to not having everything established before 25. I don't have to be fully "grown up" yet. I have lots of wiggle room for mistakes, and always will. I can learn from them, and continue.

On this side of 25, I still have so many goals... and not necessairly in any order, and this doesn't include everything!:

Perhaps there are kids in the future (an ever growing concern of mine, one of those things I'm still working through, probably discussed in a later post)

..to learn guitar

..to write, and be a better writer (real big goal: novel maybe?? :D)

..to produce a piece of visual art that I can look at and say I love it, and I'm proud of it.

..to have that comfortable job and beautiful house someday.

I want to be healthier, and happier (though I am a pretty happy person overall)

I want to enjoy every day of my marriage

to enjoy every day of life PERIOD.

There are lot of things going on, so many adventures, and so so much to look forward to..

On the (b)right side of 25.

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