While I realize that NO ONE reads/follows my blogs, I also have come to realize that you have to take life in strides.

Its hard not to get caught up in the hub-bub of what other people are doing and not compare it to your own life. Like an amazingly-talented friend of mine that just landed a great job, and when she told me about it she told me she heard a dirty rumor that "Big Kid" job # 2 is all the rage. Wonderful for her, whom just so happens to be on # 2. Super earth shattering for still on #1 Chelsea. However in this situation she deserves that fantastic job so I can calm the green monster of jealousy.

At what point in your life do you decide to make it you own? To literally take a deep breath, figure out what brings you happiness and run with it. Everyone has their path written for them to a certain point. School, big kid school, big kid job.......then.... People discover their own paths starting here. Not that what comes next is the beginning to an end, but at this point you are free get creative (or not). Meeting the love of your life, multiplying into little you and them's, focusing on just your career, begging a bank to give you enough money to buy that house that you can make your own...or not.

I'm there. I'm at the point of creativity. But I am unsure that I need to make any drastic changes at this moment. I have a job...always an area that can be improved. I am healthy (for the most part). I am in a mushy-gushy relationship that still gives me butterflies. I have a strong support system of friends and family. Is living in the moment and breathing in bliss-making life your own?

Why do I have to live by a book and do what expected? Wouldn't it be amazing if everyday you got to choose what you would do. (I understand that in some ways you do, like where you work & who you see). But I mean like you wake up and you decide..."Hmm maybe Ill fly to Paris and visit Mr. Eiffel today, followed by a quick jump in the Atlantic and a romantic dinner in Greece." Grand scale, yes I realize, but wow just the thought.

Making your life, your life might seem simple. But I don't believe you can begin to do that until you grasp your sense of self. Impossible thought at 24, 11 months and 1 day if I do say so myself.