the big 3oh

it's finally happened. that dreaded moment which twentysomething's fear the most. that moment when you finally say goodbye and enter a new classification of age...thirty. well, i have been really pondering over what it means to be this age and have surfaced from all these inner musings feeling great. yes, it's thirty but what does that mean anyway? i was more upset when i turned twenty-eight for some reason...i think just the idea that i wasn't where i thought i'd be in life was the big problem. all these expectations and thinking about the future and all that is just garbage. here's what i think 30 feels like so far...i'm at the top of my game. i'm with the love of my life and even though we aren't married or engaged we've been together through thick and thin and no one on this planet gets me the way leesh does. i've got a good job using my skills and even tho i hate it at times, who doesn't hate their job just a little sometimes? i've got great friends who continually amaze me with just how awesome they really are. i'm headed off on a massive backpacking trip in 7 weeks time which is going to be magnificent and is something i've wanted to do my entire life. and then after that, i get to see the people who helped me to get to where i am today when i return to canada and i am really looking forward to that. it really does feel like the world is my oyster to borrow a phrase. i feel as if there is nothing i couldn't do if i put my mind to it and i've got to say it's a wonderful feeling.

and that's what 30 is to me.

thanks to everyone who has helped me, put up with me, laughed with me, and all the other things we've shared so far. here's to another 30 years together.

(30 is the new 20...)