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“You can do anything—but not everything.”
“You can do anything—but not everything.” Honestly, I think a lot of us forget that. We try to be the strong one, the dependable one, the fixer, the helper, the person who always says yes. We stretch ourselves so thin trying to prove we care that we forget we’re human too. Lately I’ve been realizing that exhaustion is not proof of kindness. One of my coworkers said something that stuck with me:“You can’t always be the hero. They can still count on you if you say no once.” And maybe that’s what healing looks like sometimes. Not becoming cold.Not stopping caring.Just learning that being a good person does not require…
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🌷 Maybe Self-Love Isn’t About Who We Thought We’d Become…
Growing up, we all had this picture of who we’d be by a certain age. The career. The relationship. The house. The happiness. The life we thought we’d have figured out by 30. But somewhere along the way, life happened. Plans changed. Dreams shifted. We lost parts of ourselves we thought we’d always have. And sometimes, we find ourselves grieving the person we thought we’d become. 💗 But maybe self-love isn’t about becoming the person we thought we’d be. Maybe it’s about learning to love the person we’re becoming, even when life didn’t go according to plan. Maybe it’s about forgiving ourselves for the milestones we haven’t reached, the mistakes…
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I’m 30, Still Figuring Life Out, and Sometimes I Feel Behind
Watching everyone else move forward while I’m still trying to find my own way. I’m going to admit something I struggle with more than I’d like. Thanks for reading 30somethingandstillfiguringitout! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I’m 30, and sometimes I feel like I’m falling behind in life. I look around and see people I went to school with getting married, having kids, buying houses, and settling into careers. Meanwhile, I’m over here still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. 😂 I work in retail, I’m building my own creative business, and I have about a million ideas…