HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I honestly can't believe my birthday is here! I have just turned a quarter of a century OLD. How is that possible!?!? I don't feel old. I still feel like I'm 21. I have had very mixed emotions about my birthday this year, most particularly my age. Most of those emotions have been rather negative and depressing. I have mainly only focused on the negativity. And everything I've done wrong in my life. I haven't wanted to celebrate my birthday at all due to my insecurities and hatred of attention. I don't feel like there's anything worth celebrating about me. What have I done to receive any amount of celebration? My life isn't anywhere close to what I'd hoped for myself by the time I reached this monumental age. I feel so inexperienced and ridiculously pathetic for being a 25 year old.

Yeah. It's been a struggle. I tried begging my family to not celebrate my birthday this year, but to no avail. I really do appreciate that about my family. I know they love me and I always feel that from them especially on my birthday. I'm just feeling especially disappointed and embarrassed this year about myself. I've got to get over that.

But for today, and for the rest of my 25th year I'm going to try to live by the message of this song:

Birthday Dedication Song: I Was Born
Artist: Hanson

I love this song so much! It has one of the most inspiring and positive messages and a fun, upbeat tune! Not to mention the music video is absolutely darling and adds so much to the message of the lyrics! Hanson nailed it once again! I honestly want to try to accept and embrace this new age and time in my life. I want to look at my birthday as if it is January 1st all over again. It is a time to set goals, work hard, progress and move forward. I want this year to be different. I want to be different. I really, really do. This song just feels so perfect for me and my birthday and my big "milestone" age. I want to discover what "I WAS BORN" to do, to go and to be. I want to reach my potential and achieve my dreams and goals. I want to go far. I want to EMBRACE who I am and who I can become."

"I was born to DO something, no one's ever done, no one's ever done before!

I was born to GO somewhere, no one's ever gone, no one's ever gone before!

I was born to BE someone, no one's ever been, no ones' ever been before!"

I was BORN to DO something
No one's ever done, no one's ever done before
I was BORN to GO somewhere
No one's ever gone, no one's ever gone before, oh

A slice of the moon is my patch of green
I don't want to take it to the same routine
I want to see the sights unseen
I want the extraordinary
Everybody's waking to the same clock
I could never be another chip off the block

'Cause I was BORN to DO something
No one's ever done, no one's ever done before
I was BORN to GO somewhere
No one's ever gone, no one's ever gone before
I was BORN to BE someone
No one's ever been, no one's ever been before, oh

Don't need a map, I can't be directed
I've got a madness, don't need the method
My heart is a weapon and my mind's electric
I'll shock the world when you least expect it
Everybody's betting on the big guy
But don't underestimate the sting of the butterfly, oh

'Cause I was BORN to DO something
No one's ever done, no one's ever done before
I was BORN to GO somewhere
No one's ever gone, no one's ever gone before
I was BORN to BE someone
No one's ever been, no one's ever been before, oh
Before

There's a road out in front of me
Nobody can see
I'm paving it as I go
Gonna take it wherever it leads
'Cause I want to be someone no one has been before

I was BORN to DO
I was BORN to GO
I was BORN to BE
Someone, oh

'Cause I was BORN to DO something
No one's ever done, no one's ever done before
I was BORN to GO somewhere
No one's ever gone, no one's ever gone before
I was BORN to BE someone
No one's ever been, no one's ever been before, oh

I was BORN to DO
I was BORN to GO
I was BORN to BE someone
No one's ever been, no one's ever been before 

HAPPY 25TH!!

HERE'S TO NEW BEGINNINGS AND BEING THE BEST YOU - YOU CAN BE!!

HERE'S TO EMBRACING A COURAGEOUS AND POSITIVE FUTURE!!

HERE'S TO FACING CHALLENGES AND GROWING AND LEARNING!!

HERE'S TO TAKING RISKS AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES!!

HERE'S TO DISCOVERING WHAT "I WAS BORN" TO DO, TO GO & TO BE!!

HERE'S TO HAPPINESS AND JOY IN THE JOURNEY!!

25 YEARS YOUNG! 

A FRESH START!

A CLEAN SLATE!

I always love me some good acoustic Hanson!!! 

#HappyBirthdayToMe