Turning 30

So I'm about to turn 30 and have been thinking alot about what I've learner over the past 10 years. What has happened and how I've changed and I came up with these 15 truths for me...

1. Sometimes bad things happen to good people... That's as complicated yet simple as it is.

2. I will never stop having insecurities. I will always feel like the new kid sitting on the sidelines, worried they will be the last person picked in the dodge ball game of life.

3. Nothing compares to love, both giving and receiving it. If you don't put everything on the line than you may avoid being hurt but you will also never feel the full joy that love can bring.

4. It is possible to love and grieve for children you will never get a chance to hold. A mothers love is binding, from the moment you know a child exists inside you that love begins to blossom.

5. Saying "I'll start tomorrow... next week... or later" tends to lead to never starting at all... If it's not important enough to start today it probably isn't a priority.

6. You can't expect people to know what your thinking and feeling. Say something or get over it. People have lost the basic human skill to communicate.

7. Sometimes I just do something because I want to. There doesn't have to be a reason.

8. Laughing at a joke, smiling at a baby, holding hands, a dandelion from a child, dancing in the rain... It's the simple things that give the greatest pleasure in life. Sometimes we have to just have to take a moment to look around at all the beauty and possibilities that surround us.

9. I'm 50% choice, 50% fate. I think there is a general path of life that we are all on but that we choose the detours.

10. There is no uses being angry at things you cannot change. The effort it takes to be angry and the person you become is more of a loss, than the loss itself.

11. We are all pretty much the same at the end of the day. People spend so much time hating and fearing that which is different, when really we all have dreams and hopes, we all cry and laugh, and we have all experienced love, and hurt.

12. My greatest achievements & joys as well as failures & sadness are as a mother. There is so much hope that you will do everything right but you never can. Their pain is your pain, there joy is your joy. I can only hope he grows up to be happy and knows how much I love him.

13. My husband is amazing and frustrating rolled up in one package... 11 years together have taught me that he is who he is and most days I wouldn't have it any other way.

14. Hammocks are one of the best inventions ever. A hammock, cold drink, sunny day, beach view = perfect in my books.

15. Travel if you can. It's always nice to have a reminder that there is so much more out there than what we know or have experienced. The sights and smells and people..... LOVE IT!