How I learned to celebrate myself and discovered true joy in life at 45.
🚀 Relationship status with my own birthday: "it's complicated"
For about 20 years, I managed to virtuously sabotage my own birthdays.
I came up with a bunch of reasons not to celebrate, closed myself off in my shell, and when I did try, it turned out to be just mediocre...
So, on the evening of June 23, the day before my 45th, I physically felt the familiar hysteria starting to swirl inside me.
My birthday was tomorrow, I hadn’t told anyone, hadn’t invited anyone, and I was sitting in isolation.
I came up with a bunch of reasons not to celebrate, closed myself off in my shell, and when I did try, it turned out to be just mediocre...
So, on the evening of June 23, the day before my 45th, I physically felt the familiar hysteria starting to swirl inside me.
My birthday was tomorrow, I hadn’t told anyone, hadn’t invited anyone, and I was sitting in isolation.
🚀 Relationship status with my own birthday: "it's complicated"
For about 20 years, I managed to virtuously sabotage my own birthdays.
I came up with a bunch of reasons not to celebrate, closed myself off in my shell, and when I did try, it turned out to be just mediocre...
I came up with a bunch of reasons not to celebrate, closed myself off in my shell, and when I did try, it turned out to be just mediocre...