23.

August 6, 2015 was my birthday. I turned 23 years old. The year of Jordan.

I'm 23 and beautiful. I feel more beautiful with each passing day.

I'm 23 and full of dreams. I love being productive. I'm pretty ambitious but I often let slight laziness procrastination get the best of me. It's like a sickness. Crossing the bridge from my procrastinating ways keeps holding me back.

I'm 23 and a summer baby who cannot take this heat anymore. Give me Fall at least! It's too damn hot and I miss my leggings, boots, and scarves. Give me pumpkin flavored everything and proper hot tea and coffee weather. Please!

I'm 23 and a firm believer in retail therapy. How could anything that feels so good possibly be bad? My bank account knows the answer to this. I'm still looking.

I'm 23 and there are so many things that I wish were happening in my life right now but I'm only human and life requires patience. I don't have all the answers. I believe that it's possible that the universe is unfolding as it should.

I'm 23 and another year can mean so many things. I'm entering this year with incredible and unapologetic self love. I'm starting this year believing in myself. I'm starting this year with a  love and sweetness that I need to spread. I'm praying for another year of love, learning, discovery, excitement, accomplishments, inevitable failures and hurdles and the lessons that come with them, plus so much more.

I'm 23 and so thankful to have seen another year and I'm so excited to see what this year will bring.

Quote of the day:

"i found god in myself

and i loved her

i loved her fiercely."

- Ntozake Shange

Weekend Reminder

I’m alive, I’ve survived, and that matters. I matter. 

When you wake up, remember this. You've survived to see a brand new day. Your life matters.

At the end of that day you thought would be the most difficult and impossible day of your life, remember this. It didn't last forever and you made it over this struggle. You'll make it through the next one. You've survived and that matters. You matter. 

Final exams, in between jobs, feeling lost or tired, no one can take away the fact that you're here and your life matters always.   

Remember these words. Keep them stored away for those moments that you need them most. 

You're alive and that matters. You've survived this and that matters. You matter. Your life matters.