to commemorate my 30th

Today I am 30...

Today I am 30

Finally.

Finally.

30 is my ticket.

30 is what I've been waiting for.
30 is a cloak of confidence

I get to wear for the rest of my life...

30 is the pair of 3-D glasses

that allows me to see

beyond the omnipresent

apathy of those who

surround me.

It's freedom.

It's legitimacy....

I'm not married.

I don't have a baby.

I hear no ticking clock.

I've been digital since 1984.

All those things that I was supposed

to accomplish by the time I was 30

are not accomplished.

So I no longer have to worry

about the agenda someone else handed to me.

I'm no longer on any agenda.

Today I am 30

and the only responsibility I have

is myself.

My sanity.

My integrity.

My health.

My peace of mind.

My acute and unerring perceptions.

An enormous responsibility to be sure,

but mine and mine alone.

I am a fully responsible adult.

Because today I am 30.

Not a bad place to be actually.

After all, how many people can say:

Today I am 30 and

today I am free.

Adapted from Anita Liberty's 'How to Heal the Hurt by Hating'.