#i'll keep this in the tags cuz i'm just feeling a little introspective here but

[redwinterroses]

oh, its your birthday?

happy one-more-year-of-existence-that-despite-being-a-dark/grim-reminder-we-use-as-an-excuse-for-gifts day

...I feel like I just got many-happy-returns'ed by a vampire. XD

Thank you!

#i'll keep this in the tags cuz i'm just feeling a little introspective here but #yeah this ask made me smile and get thoughtful so here we go: #tbh? i like life. i like MY life. and... #that's kinda a big deal for me rn because 6 months ago i was deeeep in some pretty bad times #times so bad i couldn't even see how bad they were #and thanks to friends and a doc and my church i am a thousand times better #course i still have bad days. everyone's got bad days. #but they're becoming fewer and more manageable #and age also has a big thing to do with it #i used to be so terrified of my 20s ending. like. that just seems so horrifying. like the end of something #but these last few years have been the biggest personal growth i've ever had #i like myself now -- most days -- and i have confidence to say what i think and be who i want to be #not just who i'm expected to be. i straddle a lot of weird venn diagrams #and i am learning to stand there confidently because no one can move me but me #guys teens and twenties are cool but it only gets better #you are a fine wine. age well. #redwinteranswers #sorry rose-icosahedron didn't mean to get all philosophical on your lovely ask lol #it just made me think of how i used to genuinely see birthdays as a grim passage of time thing and now #it's simultaneously Just Some Day and also a moment to be like #'yeah. you know what? that year? i did that. and i did it mostly good.' #this next year's song: Sunshine by Needtobreathe #i want it to be my theme for the next 12 months #...okay i'll stop talking now lol