Empath Vortex

Today being my birthday, with everything I’ve got going on, I’ve been in retrospective mode the past couple days.

This one is different. Just losing my job in April, having to manage and deal with two properties that were inherited and not left in the best of conditions, dealing with the grief of two of the most important people to me still even though it’s been a year, my health declining more and dealing with all of that. It seems like a never-ending list of unfortunate events. And somehow that list just continues.

I was thinking the other day that this is not where I thought I’d be at 29. With it being graduation season, it took me back to the path that I thought my life would take when I had graduated 11 years ago now… and the path I had thought of, is NOTHING like the path that I am currently on but I am oddly, even with the bad things that have happened, I am okay with that.

To explain a little more, the path I thought I would take would be more “linear”. Go on to graduate college, get into a career doing what I love, be married by 25, own a house, and then children by 30.

Here I am at 29, recently being let go from a job that I enjoyed very much, just got married in 2023 at the age of 27, kids are no where in the near future for us, lost two of the most important people to me, my health has declined since then, a lot of other things in my life that I never expected that I would have to deal with before turning 30. But here I am.

You know, my grandma was a big believer in the Lord, and that it is HIS plan, and not our own and she always used to quote a song to me, “que sera sera, whatever will be, will be, the future is not ours to see.” To this day, I hear those words in her voice even after losing her March of 2024. I know that it is HIS plan, and HE will always provide and that HE will guide me along the path that I am supposed to be on. All this to say, I am grateful for all the things that I have been through – because without those things, I would not be the person I am today.

To all those who are going through it right now, or just graduating and starting life, or looking at others and seeing the different paths or parts of their journeys that they are on… look at everything that has made you who you are and respect it for what it is. Good AND bad. Here’s to another year around the sun!

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