I'm a grown up

So this really has nothing to do with Kamloops, but rather my life in general.

I recently left my twenties behind to join the world of grown ups and I'm feeling quite good about it.
Now the truth is, that I've been telling everyone for years that I'm practically 30 (much to my friends chagrin) ; so now that I'm actually 30 it doesn't really feel like much has changed.

When I turned 29, that felt scary. It felt like there was some sort of looming/ inevitable midlife crisis that was bound to happen. I came across entire self help sections in bookstores, lined with titles about the trauma of turning 30. Yikes! "Is it really going to be that bad," I thought to myself?
No.
I simply feel like I finally belong in my own skin. Having felt like a grown up for so long, now I just feel comfortable.
I did have lots of plans that I figured I would have finished by the time I hit 30, but now that the deadline has past, it feels like the pressure has too.
I thought I would be all finished with school at this point (also thought I'd be a lawyer). Thought I would have gotten my driver's licences, dropped a few of my bad habits, shaved my head once, gotten a tattoo, be making plans to buy a house, have written a least one play, finished reading 'war and peace' and the 'complete works of shakespeare'.
Really, not a big deal that I've missed the date, for the most part. And really, I don't regret how I chose to  spend my time in my twenties. I traveled some, did some school, am on the right path as far as my career is concerned and that feels like enough.
I'll get to the rest of it. It's still all on the list, its just that now I don't feel so rushed. So now that I don't feel so frantic about trying to get everything accomplished,  I'm going to try and enjoy myself a little bit more.
Now with all of that said, I did feel a need for some change. Call it vain or superficial, but I have put some significant effort this past year into updating my wardrobe. Getting rid of clothes left from my teens, and ones that don't fit. I've have also made a  concerted effort to go shopping for grown up clothes and clothes that actually fit. And today, I cut my hair and said goodbye to my uber long plain jane locks that looked like they belonged on a 12 year old. So now I have grown up hair too.

So see ya later 20's ! No midlife crisis here, just a bit of an upgrade and on we go. 

30's I can't wait

peace

Cmax