In case you don’t follow me on Twitter, because I’ve been so super excited for the past month, my birthday is TOMORROW! I remember when I was little I absolutely LOVED my birthday. There’s just something about it that is so special. It’s one day out of the year that your friends and family celebrate you. It’s “your day.”

So, this brings me back to this time last year. Around this time last year I was about to turn 22 and I had this shocking revelation that I no longer have anymore “exciting” birthdays to look forward too! For instance, when you are 16 you have a sweet 16 and you get your license. When you are 18 you are officially an adult. When you are 20 you finally REALLY get to be an adult because you are now in your 20’s. And of course, when you turn 21, if you do it right, you go out and have drinks because you can now…legally.

So there I was sitting in my apartment just really down because I was almost 22 and just really upset, not because I was getting old, but because I had no more birthdays to look forward to. I didn’t even want to hangout with my friends or do anything on my actual birthday because I was so down about this fact.

Now that I’m almost 23 though, I’m not really upset about turning 23 or the fact that I have no more ground- breaking birthdays. I’ve thought about it a lot, but I don’t regret the way I acted last year because It taught me a lesson that i’ve been thinking about a lot this past month. We should never be upset about our own birthday. Whether we are turning 22, 23, 25, 30, or 50! Life is so amazing. While we are on this Earth we learn so many amazing things! The fact that God has given me another year of such a crazy life should be something that I am so thankful for, not that I should be moping about because I have no more exciting birthdays. EVERY birthday should be exciting. There are people out there who won’t have that joy of being here another year.

So, after thinking about this to myself I just got really inspired to not be such a debbie downer this year. ( I even went out for drinks last night with my best friends and didn’t have to spend a dime because it was my birthday!) I’m excited for tomorrow. I will always cherish my birthdays and every day that God lets me be here. I hope for those of you who also have “no more birthdays to look forward to” will read this and maybe change the way you think. I hope you feel inspired to celebrate every single day of forever and that you live each day to the fullest!