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Today is my 42nd birthday. Here are 20 essential life truths I wish I could tell my younger self. 1. Just because it (the relationship, job, or opportunity) looks good on paper, doesn't mean it will feel good in life. 2. Society, teachers, and parents often mean well, but mostly teach you to deny your truest self. Learn when and how to ignore them. 3. Nothing looks as good as authenticity feels. 4. You are smarter, braver, stronger, and prettier than you think. 5. No one benefits from you dimming your light to accommodate the fear, jealousy, and insecurity of petty people. 6. People who laugh at your struggles are not your friends. Stop spending time with them. 7. What happened to you is not your fault. But dealing with it is your responsibility. 8. When people have strong reactions to you, good or bad, it usually says more about them than it does about you. Don't let them distract you. 9. Follow your curiosity. It will teach you more, open more doors, and lead to more incredible experiences than nearly anything else. 10. Every success takes longer than you think it will. Don't optimize for speed. Optimize for endurance. 11. Everyone is figuring it out as they go—even your heroes, idols, and mentors. Don't give up. 12. The hard way is the easy way. Trying to skip steps, automate things, be lazy, or take shortcuts will only cost you in the end. 13. If you want to understand people, learn to understand yourself first. 14. Go to therapy early and often. Every part of your life will be better if you do. 15. Your inner wisdom does not shout. She whispers. So you better quiet everything else down so you can hear. 16. You don't have one soul mate. You have many. People who make life more joyful, beautiful, and rich. Find them, keep them, and love the shit out of them. 17. Everything you want in life is on the other side of fear. Learn to face it with courage, honesty, and gratitude. 18. People will encourage you to be less sensitive. F*ck them. It's your superpower, and it's absolutely beautiful. 19. When in doubt, spend more time with the outsiders, the weirdos, the underdogs, and the puppy dogs. They have more heart, and they're way more fun. 20. Life is meant to be fully lived and felt. Learn to embrace the full spectrum of this weird, wonderful experience you're having. • Seize every opportunity. • Feel every emotion. • Pet every dog. That's what we're all here to do. XOXO Kasey
Happy birthday, this post was BEAUTIFUL, but like…I think you made a typo and you’re 32
Happy birthday I say celebrate for a month Kasey.
Thanks Kasey. I like number 10. Our human nature tells us at every moment that short-term success is the key. We are used to things not costing us much, and when there are some barriers or limits, we always try to bypass them. We do not give adequate time to achieve our goals. I believe a very important point is to consider that success has many facets, and success is not an end, but a means. Enjoying all those means is having success in the end.
Since 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, do you have any additional wisdom for us?
You mean 24? Lol
Kasey, Great sharing your thoughts and “pearls of wisdom”! #13 is really stands out to me. I make the following addition: that the individual should look to do a SWOT analysis of themselves. Then they can look at those areas that MUST be needed to be improved in order to move forward in achieving their personal, business goals and relationships. Happy Birthday🖖
Oh my! Happy Birthday Kasey! Lots of wisdom there in your post. I’m debating about the # 2 with the parents especially. I know that they mean well and don’t want us to get hurt. But, sometimes we have to go through that pain to learn and grow.
How did you become so wise by the age of 42? Well done!
No.5 hits home for me. It’s taken me 2 decades and I still struggle with this and feel ‘bad’ if I don’t dim my light to ‘protect’ others. I’ve become better, but am still a work in progress where this is concerned 💡 Kasey Jones 🏔
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1moHappy Birthday, Kasey Jones 🏔 I wish I'd been so wise at 42, having turned 53 in March of this year. This is beautiful, and I thank you for it. Re # 1: Briefly in life I was on dating sites. Living in the mountains, I cast a wide net: 150 miles from where I live/work/play in Tahoe. Initially there were so many guys who seemed so great. They all had similar interests to me, and some had similar names (Brian, Ryan, Brett, Brent . . .). I made a spreadsheet. I color-coded it, cause that's how my brain works. Pink was for those who POPPPED off the page, and were Perfect on Paper (POP). Inevitably, Every Single One of them turned out to be Perfect Only on Paper (POOP). One by one, I color coded them brown, eventually shutting my spreadsheet down and getting off the dating site. Point being sometimes, what appears to be Perfect on Paper, and is POPing off the page at us, in reality is Perfect ONLY On Paper, or POOP, and it's ok to scoop that up in a baggie and toss it in the garbage bin.