Reflections on Turning 30

So many people have been telling me that this birthday is one of the “big ones”… I’m turning 30! Really though, I’ve never been one who’s worried about my age or has really put too much emphasis on my birthday. I really don’t remember my birthdays being very significant when I was a kid. They were family get togethers with one or two presents and a small cake. My 21st birthday was pretty uneventful in the grand scheme of things. It was spent, like most nights in Athens that year, with my best friend at the time Bianca... Going from bar to bar. My next few birthdays were spent with friends at pretty low key house parties. My last few birthdays have been spent working all day and getting together with my sisters and sometimes my parents to have dinner. While I have cherished all of them, I’ve never thought of them as life changing.


As this birthday has approached, I have been reflecting a lot... But I don’t think it really has too much to do with me turning 30… It’s how much has changed in my life over the year. Last year at this time, I was at my older sisters house about to blow out my candles… I never wish for anything specific usually, more like world peace or for a really good year… but last year was different. At the last minute, the wish “I want to meet my husband” flashed into my head. It actually surprised me. It was not preconceived. I had not been thinking of marriage at all. In fact I loved being single and was quite content with the whole thing. I was actually shocked by the thought and the fact I actually wished it! I shrugged it off after a few minutes as some weird glitch in the matrix. One week and just a few hours later, I was running the music at Spring Revfest when I caught the eye of this really cute guy in the crowd. Now a year later, am spend my birthday with that guy… and about 500 other music and art lovers as we run the music for this year’s Spring RevFest together. We’re also getting married in September.

In my first 30 years of life, I look back and am amazed at what I’ve accomplished. While I sometimes still think of things in my past and wonder how exactly I’ve been lucky enough to still be here, I wouldn’t take back anything.

Kerry