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Do you ever look back on your life and wonder, “how did I ever get here”?

Every once and a while I think about it, if only for a slight second. Years ago, I use to live on a small 15 house block on the out skirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I thought that that block was my world. All of my friends were on that street, and we had a lot of fun those days.
You didn’t have to worry about who was president, what wars were going on, when the rent was due and what you were going to wear to your next big business meeting. We normally just played catch and release with our friends till the street lights came on, or we caught frogs and lightening bugs and kept them as our pets. I wasn’t allowed off that block by myself until I was at least 13. I guess that would explain my sudden anxiety whenever my dad would get lost in the car when we would go on family vacations. I would cry almost immediately because I thought that we would be lost forever. My world was surrounded by certainty, and I swore that I would grow up and always live around my family and friends (hopefully on that same street). I just wanted to live in my little bubble and not have to worry about the world around me. Life was good, but so ignorant at the same time back then. Being a kid was AWESOME.

I had no idea in those days that I’d be here today, Just turned 28 years old, a designer, a military wife, an explorer and a best friend. Since my col-de-sac days I have fulfilled my dream in owning my own graphic design company. I also have become quite a traveler to my own surprise. (that was NOT on my list of things to accomplish by age 30 by the way) To this day my dad says that I was the last one he would have expected to marry a military man and travel the world, and I’m totally with him on that one.

Even though my life didn’t work out according to plan, I am sure loving every minute of it. I will forever embrace the person and wife I have become because of what I didn’t get to do. There’s always a reason for everything, and by god, this has turned out to be an awesome ride so far! I can’t possibly fathom what more there is to come for the next 28 years of my life!