30 by 30 List
After I received the Forbes 30 under 30 honor, it was like this different pressure swept over me. It felt as if I had this new ceiling and now things were expected of me. I reached a new standard, that I didn’t even know if I was ready for. After some time passed, I realized I was. Everything was inside of me just like it was Patrick Mahomes, Ivy Alwino and Bobby Wagner (yeah, the surrounding class was intimidating).
I deserved to have my name there. Hard work is hard work, no matter what you’re doing. Now, I’m about to enter the last year of my 20s and I started feeling another new pressure, one that’s asking me how I’m going to put a bow on it. While I don’t know exactly how this year will look, I am after all having my first “covid birthday” and I wouldn’t have expected that last year but here we are.
I have decided I’m going to be doing a 30 by 30 list. 30 things I want to accomplish by 30. Some of these are small, some of these are personal and some of these will look different than I intend but nonetheless I am putting them out into the universe and here they are. The point of my sharing them is to take you on this journey with me, to let you know what we can accomplish when we set our mind to it and to be the little reminder, the meaning of life is to give life a meaning. ALL COVID PERMITTING
1. Go to Paris and see the Eiffel tower
2. Fall in Love
3. See the Grand Canyon
4. Get Another Tattoo (sorry mom)
5. Learn to Play Piano
6. Create a Specialty Meal
7. Daily Meditation
8. Go Camping, Like Legit Camping
9. Watch All Audrey Hepburn Movies
10. Compliment My Body More
11. Give Blood
12. Start Investing
13. Go on a road trip
14. Eat an Exotic Meal
15. Go to Black Lives Matter Plaza
16. Watch the sunrise in a new place each month
17. Daily journaling of some sort
18. Help A person in Need
19. Move to a new city
20. See Live Music
21. Go to More Museums
22. Read 8 books
23. Be the first to apologize
24. Forgive myself for my past
25. Make a family tree
26. Paint something
27. Sell items you don’t love anymore
28. Clean out my closet
29. Go to Edmund Pettis Bridge
30. Be Me – Love Myself