A 5x5 for My 25

Well guys, I have officially made it through a quarter of a century on this beautiful mother earth of ours! I am so insanely grateful that God has blessed me with the chance to get to this point, do what I've done, seen what I've seen, and grown how I've grown. I cannot believe the blessed life I've been given and am livin', and am so excited to arrive to my birthday on the upswing. (One that will likely be one of the highest highs I've had in a long time, since the low I'm coming out of is one of the strongest I've ever encountered.)

I figured that for my 25th Birthday Blog Post, I wanted to mix up the traditional list a little bit, and throw down a 5x5... five lists, with five items, for a total of 25! (Shaaaboom! Like that!? ;) So without further a due, here are my Five-by-Five's for Twenty-Five...

Five Qualities I Have Kept All My Life

1. Quirky-weird-zaniness
2. Colorful character
3. Big, bright smile
4. Curiosity about my surroundings
5. Obsession with L O V E

Five Things I'm Proud Of

1. Graduating from college [in under 5 years] & landing back-to-back contracted jobs with a Fortune 100 company [Disney/ABC Television Group]
2. Realizing what kind of life I didn't want to live, and not being too scared to do what it took to get myself out of a desk, and into the world
3. Learning another language
4. Leaving a positive, loving mark on everyone I encounter
5. Who I've become, and the value I've come to place on myself

 

Five Things I Still Want To Do

1. Explore all the world
2. Learn at least five more languages
3. Learn to play at least one musical instrument
4. The Camino de Santiago in Spain
5. Realize my path fully

Five Amazing Things I've Done

1. Come back to God, and realized Him as my source and center. And brought others to know and love Him. 
2. Believed that I could create my reality, instead of believing that there is a such thing as "not very realistic", and turned my dreams into my daily life!
3. Spent one week kayaking 136km around the island of Ibiza
4. Learned to live with my heart wide-open
5. Moved back to Spain/away from home with a plan to spend the rest of my life all over the globe

Five Things I've Learned

1. If you don't love yourself, accept yourself, and want to really Be yourself, you cannot ever, really, fully, love anyone or anything else.
2. It all starts within. What you see, believe, think, and feel, transforms your world, your life, and creates or kills any opportunity that might be laid out for you.
3. There is a blessing to be seen, felt, and/or found in EVERY situation. No matter how much we perceive it to be on the negative scales, it's got something good for us hidden away. Sometimes it's not even that hidden away, we just don't realize it because we're emotional human beings.
4. Gratitude (saying thanks), trust, and love, are the most important things we could ever have and release in our lives. They have the power to do all.
5. Although our hearts are all beating in different chests, at different rates, all around the world, they are all connected and beating as one, to create the most beautiful bass line we could ever know. Explore the souls of other people. Explore the world. Come to see that we're all the same, we're all connected, and the world is such a massive place, but we can navigate it if we try.

 

So, there we have it! My Five-by-Five-for-Twenty-Five!

I hope that the blessings I feel and embrace, transcend the borders of my body and life, and reach you in yours. And that the upswing I've entered, will cause a ripple affect so great, of love, light, and wonder, that you will have the best day, everyday! I release all that is good in me, back to You! :-*

Blessings, Love & Beautiful Light

<3

I've Got Big Plans, Man!

In one week, I will turn 25. It's a big age, and I think it's going to be a pretty major year for me. I'm planning on doing a lot in the coming year, and can only assume that it, as all the past years of my life have been, will be better than the one that came before (which seems quite hard to come by considering the last year I've had). I have been doing a lot of growing, learning, loving and examining lately, and have come to realize that there really is no such thing as "too old to do _______." There are so many things I want to do and learn in life, and I am quite excited to begin doing many of them. I have many goals and dreams, and I fully intend to make them all realities!

Twenty-five might be a scary year for some, as it seems to mark a huge step in the adult direction, but for me, I'm seeing it as a year in which I will be reborn, and dabble in as many new things as I possibly can! I see possibilities, opportunities, and new life! I've been coming up with ideas of things I want to learn and begin lately, and it's time I laid them out and released them into the universe, so she and my Papa God can help me accomplish them! Some of the things that I hope to accomplish in my 25th year of life are:

1. Further exploration of myself, my thoughts, feelings, and capacities
2. To learn to
• Speak another language or two (at least be conversational)
• Play the banjo
• Dance the Sevillan [in time for the Feria]
• Drive a stick-shift car
• Make a killer tortilla de patatas
3. Get serious enough about my blog that I can start to make some money off of it/parlay into the world of travel writing
4. Explore, at least a little, every region of Spain / go to Formentera and Menorca, and some of the islands of the Canaries I haven't yet explored
5. Go to, and really experience, at least three new countries (preferably five)
6. Continue my progress, growth, mission, and life, in a loving, positive, mindful way

I think it's an incredibly reasonable list, and I really do plan to accomplish everything on it! Now I just have to put all my faith in God that He will help me make it all happen, and make some little plans and timelines for myself, so I can keep myself on track to checking them all off!

Life is such a beautiful thing, and we are so blessed to have the chance to experience it, no matter where or how we might be doing so. And since we are such complex and special beings, it's really important that we fully realize out potential and do as much as we can for and with ourselves. I am pretty sure we weren't created so we could just be couch potatoes or office bots. No, that can't be it. So, get out there! Go, learn, do, see, and be all that you can! Even if you just hit the sidewalk in front of your house with some sidewalk chalk and draw body outlines like it's a crime scene, use yo brain! Move your body, use your mind, live your life, and be proud of all you do!

Live, laugh, love, and remember how amazing and remarkable you are! :-*

Massive Blessings, Love & Light to you all

I'm so happy to be on this earthball with you :)