Saturday, October 20, 2007

I am old. Twenty-nine is hours away, and I am not looking forward to it. I wish I could be one of those Oprah girls who celebrates the fact that they are aging, but I just don't want to embrace this particular birthday. It is not twenty-nine that bothers me, it's the year after it...I can barely say it..thirty. Tomorrow's birthday just means that I am one year closer to that "milestone".

I've had many dreams and goals for my life that I wanted to reach by the big 3-0, so now I only have 365 days to write a book, get my master's degree, go to another Russian orphanage, get licensed with the A/G, visit Italy, pay off my school loans, and be in the best physical shape of my life. Not small tasks.

I hear life begins at 30. We'll see about that. I just hope 29 is happy and healthy, and that nothing starts sagging or stretching!!!

5 comments:

sharonie said...

be thankful it's only thirty and not fifty.

Joan said...

Hey Sharon, What's that suppose to mean? I will be 50 something this year and I feel the same way Bethany. I have all these things I want to do they just don't seem to be happening. I was listening to TD Jakes on the way to work today and he was talking about the "new thing" that God wanted to do. He didn't even have a name for it because it was going to be something so great he could not describe it because we could not understand with our little minds until we saw it take place. So I will pray that the "new thing" God wants to do in your life will be started this year (because great things take lifetimes and are eternally significant impacting generations to come) and that you will stand back and be amazed at what God is doing in and through you! Happy Birthday! It's going to be great!

Kelly Weinberg said...

I only have 6 months left until I am 30!! I felt the same way you did on your birthday, but now I am ready to hit the big 30! I think of the movie 13 going on 30 where Jennifer Garner says she wants to be thirty, flirty and thriving! That is going to be my slogan on April 23, 2008! I hope your 29th birthday was lots of fun! :)

Judith and Lance said...

Bethany - let me know how 29 is, it's only a few months away for me... AGH!

Angel said...

I thought 29 was going to be depressing, but actually it feels good. I feel like I'm liking getting older...sounds weird, but it's not as bad as it sounds!