30

I am about to turn 30 in six short days. It is a milestone age, almost as significant as 18 or 21 or 40. For many, it is an age that they fear, for certainly when you are 30, you are an adult without excuses. You are no longer a "young adult", and that transition scares a lot of people. for me, the great majority of my 20's were spent miserable, uncertain, angry, self destructive, depressed, and unmotivated. I have stories from my 20's that could fill an encyclopedia of dysfunction. A chronological list of the moments from my 20's that haunt me would take days to read, and much longer to write...

Somehow though, and for some reason I can't quite pinpoint, my life began to turn in a direction that shined more light back towards me than ever before. Once my 28th birthday rolled around, I was in the process of pulling myself up and out of the ashes. I have completed that climb and I am still cleaning myself off as I prepare to venture into my 30's. It's not something I am afraid of, but something I welcome with the hope that life will continue to carry me in the right direction.

It will always get better, so hold on- no matter what anyone else says... That is really all the advice I can give.