GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s time for ‘My 2 Cents.’
I celebrated a birthday this week and even though I am by no means upset about another trip around the sun, birthdays are always a time to reflect.
What have I done in the past year? What did I accomplish? What’s changed? Am I different? What do I want to happen before my next birthday? What are my goals? How’s my career? How’s my personal life? Am I doing enough?
When you start asking those big questions, it’s easy to freak out a little bit.. and I’ll admit, I did.
I stopped to think about why I feel so much pressure to reach these life benchmarks? Is it societal pressure – is it self imposed?
Then, I saw this on social media. A post said: Normalize finding love in your 40s. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30s. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50s. Life doesn’t end at 25. Let’s stop acting like it does.
Life is short, yes, but we have time. Throw off any expectations you have put on yourself or that anyone else has put on you. Ages aren’t deadlines.