27th Turn Around the Sun

     I used to love my birthday growing up. Mainly because it was time for family to come together and celebrate and plus the closer to my birthday, the closer it was to being summer time. Take my 3rd year in college, my birthday came at the same time as my finals so I basically had an extended weekend to celebrate. Now my birthdays look a little different and feel a bit wacky. 

     Although this year, I got to celebrate in the happiest place on Earth with one of my oldest best friends and my mom, I am still well aware my numbers creeping up in age..With that being said, I do want to take the time to think about what I want to accomplish this 27th turn around the sun. 

• The last 2 months, I have been really looking at my current career path, and while I love working where I work because of the people, it's not quite what I pictured my life would be at 27. I want to get back on track with my chosen career, whether that is design, marketing or content creation, I do not know yet, but I am looking forward to see what I can come up with. 
• I have come to realize I have been living, I feel, very stagnant, recently. Not really moving, kind of like still water. And while there is peace in the stillness sometimes, I want to live a bit more passionately. Shake up the water so to speak. I want to do more and say more. 
• I want to be in a place of contentment. Not just with my job, but with myself as well. I think this lines up with the previous items I want to accomplish pretty well. 
  
• To no one's surprise, I have been dealing with anxiety and depression since I was 13/14, and recently, it's kind of been hitting me hard. I first felt bad during the days leading up to the holidays, but seasonal depression is sort of on par with my holidays, so I thought I would find the other side of it. I haven't. It's not as bad, but I have been on sort of a downhill slope, so I want to accomplish finding the incline then the plateau of this. 

     Maybe my lists of accomplishments I am hoping to hit by April 29, 2023 isn't very long, but I feel like they count and they all have merits to them. I am on the other side of my 20s at this point, and maybe that is why I am feeling nostalgic or maybe I am just finally growing up, but this 27th year around the sun is going to be impactful.. I can feel it.