15/04/2026
🎈T H I R T Y - E I G H T 🎈
I got asked today what 38 feels like compared to 32, so here it is…
When you’re in your teens, twenties and early thirties - you worry and stress so much more about things that will eventually not matter all that much. You just don’t know it yet.
Although responsibilities increase and bigger life events start to happen, you also develop this sense of calm + peace in yourself in a way that you couldn’t have when you were younger. It’s hard to explain + articulate.
You care so much more about truly important things, and care so much less in many other ways. Your energy moves to things, people and moments that actually matter and that you value rather than wasting it.
I feel the older I’ve got, the happier I am. And sure, lots of that is down to the work I’ve done on myself, but lots of it is also about choosing and understanding what really matters to me at the end of the day. I’m less bothered by what people think of me (not totally, but less) because for me to show up as the woman I am? I need to be doing the things I enjoy doing!
I won’t lie, by now I assumed I’d be married with kids and own my own home 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t have any of those things (yet) and also may never have those things…. But I also realise that I don’t need those things to be happy in myself either 💛
Here’s to 38 🥂
