plans for the new year

[anotheranon]

A bit late for New Year's resolutions, but yesterday was my birthday (thanks all y'all for your well-wishes!) and 35 seems a nice round (well, divisible by 5) number to re-evaluate and put some goals down:

• cherish those near and dear
  
• be more mindful and open to experience and learning (I've got the humility thing down, now it's time to acknowledge that I'd learn more if I'm paying attention)
  
• try new things (even if it's just getting something different off the menu)
  
• remember that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" and sometimes risking a mistake is better than inertia
  
• continue discovering what makes me me, because I still feel like a reflection of everything/everyone around me
  

Comments

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

I sometimes find it strange that I talk to so many women who don't/didn't feel like they really started "getting it together" until their 30s - it's refreshing to know I'm not the only one!

For a long time I felt bad about myself because I was "supposed" to have figured it all out by the time I was 25 or so. I think I finally started to mature when I let go of the idea that there's an age at which I'm supposed to be "finished".