It’s my 50th birthday

It’s my birthday today and as always, I like to share my thoughts on getting older and how things change from year to year.

Today I am 50.

I have more years behind me than ahead, so things are starting to get real.

I’m choosier now; on what I let into my mind and what I choose to let go…

who I let into my soul circle and who will remain, respectfully and kindly, on the outside.

I am well practised at ‘letting them’.

Without allowing it to alter the air within my lungs or affect my self-worth.

And finally, I have figured out how to stop ‘only being as happy as the least happy person in the room’, a formula which took me this long to work out (fellow sensitives may resonate highly here).

Another year without alcohol has further solidified my ‘learning’ of who I am, without masks and tools and facades. It’s uncomfortable, I would be lying to say otherwise, but it is enlightening. It unpauses what was stagnant, allows your growth catch up to where it truly wants to be.

I am far more accepting now, of myself and of others…

Life is hard. Even when it is easy, it is still hard.

And I think, really, we are all just trying to be good. Trying to be better. Trying to survive with the hand we were dealt. We need one another.

As for ongoing, I only have a few ‘wants’… I want to be more easily pleased, to see more magic in the moments and to slow down even further. I know now that if you want more of the wonderful stuff life has to offer you have to do less, in order to be able to see it.

And yes, ageing is hard to handle. No doubt about that.

The wrinkles and the sagging and the physical changes do shout to be corrected and reversed to stay relevant and attractive in this world of ours.

But, we have already been that younger version of us, there is a new one ahead patiently waiting to come in with her wisdom and her light.

Acceptance is the word here. Removing pressure wherever you possibly can.

Whatever you choose to do, however you wish to age, acceptance is everything.

Of your own choices and of the choices everyone else makes too.

Today, I have a big dream in my soul vision...

I would love for anyone who can afford it and for whom it feels right, to gift a copy of ‘to the women’ to a women’s charity or someone who needs it.

If you do, let me know below and I will donate one more. Mine are going to Women's Aid and We Free Women. Feel free to suggest any other women’s charity below.

Thank you all for every ray of light you bring me.

What a decade it’s been.

It is Monday, a new week (for me a new decade), and guess what - we are alive. So let’s live. Xxx

Here is the link and do let me know if you gift one so that I may match it. https://amzn.eu/d/ckxHQ2M

Donna xx

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