"You Can Go Your Own Way......"

I have always believed that my life has a soundtrack.  And all the moments, however grand or minuet they might be, can be best summed up by a song.  You know when you hear a song and it brings you right back to a high school prom, a first date or your college hay-days.  Well most days my life is set to music, in my head at least, and today Stevie Nicks sang to me on my way into town to find work.

I am lucky enough to have some of the very best friends in the world and you all know who you are.  And when your not very close to your family and the ones you are close to live entirely too far away, you count on your friends to share your life with and for sound advice.  One of my best girls told me over the summer to stop worrying about what everyone else is doing in regards to getting married, having children, buying home and settling down.  And to just be OK with living my life and being me.  Truly when she told me this, although I of course thought this many times, I was freed from that feeling of not measuring up to everyone else I know.

Recently I saw the movie Eat Pray Love and think that Julia did a phenomenal job (much better than Liz herself) in the role of Liz Gilbert.  If you have been hiding under a rock for the past few years and haven't heard of the novel, the author or the blockbuster movie give Google a go for the background info.  Although my life does not mirror Liz' at all, I do feel like I am on my own little journey figuring out me and what I want out of life.  I always imagined that I would marry my high school sweetheart right out of college, have the picket fence and family to match.  And I always had my life planned.

I am a month away from my 30th birthday and I am not sure if I want the family and the picket fence.  I go back and forth all the time and I know when I meet the illusive Mr. Right that all of those thoughts will be thrown out the window.  Or maybe I will be single and I am OK with that too.  There are many things I don't know, but I do know that my dream is still to open a restaurant and I am optimistic that will be sooner than later.

I still have so many places in this world I want to see and experiences I need to have.  And I am just not one to be fenced in or tied down.  It's in my Sagittarius nature to be a bit restless and I am living up to that in no uncertain terms.  Everyone has "that single friend" and that just might be the role I play in your life.  Or maybe not, only God knows what's in store. 

I will leave you with my favorite quote from the book/movie Eat Pray Love as I go and enjoy a glass of delicious Marlborough sauvignon blanc (the only inexpensive item in Australia). 

"So now I have started living my own life.  Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoughly." Liz Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

What's your theme song today?

xx-

Cheryl