Wow! Today is my 30th Birthday. As I write the words it barely feels real.
I AM OFFICIALLY 30 BITCHES!!!
30 used to be my scary age..maybe it still is. But because I feel so happy with where my life is right now at 30…it doesn’t feel so scary after all.
Age really is just a number. It feels like yesterday I turned 21 and even though things have changed, many things have still stayed the same too.
When I look back at my 20’s I’m flooded with amazing memories. I got to experience: (in no particular order)
- Moving to a big new city
- Traveling to New York, Chicago, and Hawaii
- Online dating…. I did it all. Okcupid, Plenty of Fish, Tinder.
- Random make-outs on the beach
- Girls weekends/getaways in Palm Springs, Laguna Beach, Vegas, San Francisco, Temecula
- Sorority life
- Graduating college
- Interning for Ryan Seacrest and blogging all about celebrity news
- Living in all the different areas of Los Angeles: Hollywood, Culver City, Marina Del Rey
- Dancing, drinking, partying, making bad decisions
- Night classes at UCLA and Santa Monica College
- Watching many of my close friends get married
- Making new and long-lasting friendships
- Crying over heart break
- Working in accounting/ business management and learning there’s a whole other world out there of super wealthy people
- Falling in love
I think being in your 20’s is all about finding yourself and turning yourself into the kind of adult human you want to be. ha.
You are thrown into the adult world and there’s still a part of you that wants to have fun and rage but also focus and figure out where you want your life to lead and who you want to become. I definitely worked hard and played hard and feel I was able to keep a good balance.
If my now 30 year-old self could tell my 20 year-old self anything it would probably be “Just enjoy life! Be kind to everyone, have fun, dont cry over boys because they won’t mean anything to you in a few months. And stop thinking that you will never find love. You WILL! Just wait and see! Also, take these next few years to focus on yourself because once you REALLY need to grow up, it may be too late to partake in those fun crazy times. And you will never get those opportunities or moments again.”
Things I’m leaving behind in my 20s:
- Dating
- Smoking cigarettes
- Reading “Things You Need to Learn in Your 20s” articles haha
- Sleeping around with random dudes
- Not saving money
So there you have it!! Happy 30th Birthday to me! Excited to see what my 30s bring!
Tess Explains It All 