26 things to do before turning 27 // Ready...go.
- Run a 5K
- Visit San Fransisco (and maybe get back to San Diego)
- Collaborate on a styled shoot
- Go to three cultural events/concerts/plays
- Be in a musical
- Decorate the living room
- Decorate the bedroom
- Go to London (or at least book tickets)
- Get business coaching
- Clean up, organize, and prettify the office
- Read 10 books
- Pick a cause and volunteer
- Pay off one college loan
- Get the sofa cleaned
- Find a dentist
- Go kayaking
- Find new music to enjoy and artists to love
- Buy a camera with video possibilities and play around with it
- Take a dance class (not zumba, something real like ballet or tap or ballroom)
- Make a crepe cake
- Plan one romantic getaway with my husband
- Do a hike on the AT
- Get new head shots - and generally get in front of the camera more often
- Buy a tilt-shift lens
- Have a girl's weekend
- Plan a 27th birthday party
Making that list was HARD. Thanks to Dani for the wonderful idea.
I hope you look back on this birthday as one where you were truly happy. Not wishing to be at a different place in life. Loving who you were with and what you were doing...every single day of it. A time when you were content and felt like you had reached a place of peace and joy with the life you had up until this point. That everything finally came together. I hope you basked in it. I hope you enjoyed the sunshine. And I wish you many more birthdays and years like this. Keep shooting for your dreams, but don't forget to stop and love the life you've lived. Now go out and do something that you wouldn't normally do, like buy absurdly large balloons, just for the fun of it - it's totally worth it, I promise.
Sincerely,
Present self
