This past weekend I was in Nashville for my best friend from undergrad’s baby shower. It was a quick trip; a friend and I drove up from Atlanta Friday night then right after the brunch I hit the road so that I could get back to Atlanta in time for a holiday party at the Georgia Aquarium. Both parties were great (though very different) and somehow the entire weekend went off without a hitch.
When I think back on the weekend I realize that it might exemplify more than any other situation in my life thus far that we all are at different stages in our own lives -- very, very different stages -- and that’s okay. In fact, it’s more than okay, it’s to be expected.
As we live our lives they change. We change. Our priorities change and the people who come in and out of our lives change. As this all happens it’s just important to keep in mind what’s important to you and what you want to make time for.
My pregnant (and gorgeous/glowing/so teensy tiny) best friend might have decided to make such crazy, ambitious, hectic travel years ago (probably at my coercing) but now that couldn’t be farther from a good time to her. To me a jam-packed weekend with potentially overly ambitious plans can often be a good time.
We all just need to keep our eyes on our own ‘prizes’ and understand what we want to be doing now and in the future. This is especially in your twenties, especially as you’re figuring out your life and your career; especially in 2013 when there is literally a new list created daily telling you exactly what you should be doing, what you should not being doing, how you should be feeling, what you should be prioritizing, it’s important to know that you just need to do you.
Oh but for those times when you might be in a moment of weakness comparing yourself to your married, pregnant, proper life-stage-abiding friends, have a good chuckle and knock yourself back into reality by reading this. Though notice how I think this is really funny now, let’s check back in 10 years...
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