Yesterday was the last day of March, which marks the end of my month long 35th Fabulous Birthday Celebration. Yes, I celebrated my birthday for the entire month and of course loved every minute of it! What a celebration it was! On the day of my birthday, some of my best friends came in town from DC and Atlanta to help me celebrate; and we did just that, beginning at 9:00 am at my parent’s home! We spent the day hanging out and later that night, more friends joined in helping me celebrate at a birthday party one of my friends threw in my honor. We had a weekend of nothing but good times. Bigger than it being a milestone birthday was the fact that my entire day was spent with people and receiving birthday love from people that love and deeply care for me. In the past year I have often reflected and shared with others about how wonderfully blessed I am to have the best family and friends anyone in the world could ever want. And nothing could be closer to the truth than that! The month long celebration also included celebrating with other fellow Pisces at a fundraiser out of town, a delicious and very hilarious brunch with girlfriends, cupcakes at work, a night of his Purple Majesty (Prince) and the release of the iPad 2(Yeah, that had to be mentioned. I’m loving mine!!). Although March is gone, there is something that I’ve carried into April that wasn’t even around on the first of March. What I thought was a gift that I was giving myself turned out to be a completely different gift all on it’s own.
We all know the saying, “Never say never.” and understand its meaning. Even though that is a very well known phrase and one that makes complete sense, some of us have things that we without a doubt feel are definite nevers; present company included. Well in the midst of celebrating I decided to throw caution to the wind and contradict myself. My gift to myself was the permission to do something I never thought I would and be ok with it.
With my permission slip signed, I went on my field trip to ‘Never Land’. Once I arrived onto park grounds, I went to the ticket window where instead of getting a basic general admission ticket, I was handed a VIP pass and told the park was all mine to enjoy. Having VIP access to just about anything is pretty exciting, but this pass didn’t evoke those feelings of excitement because I had no idea of what to expect with that access. As a matter of fact, the only thing I walked into the park expecting, was knowing I was going to be walking out of the park with an experience I previously said I would never have.
So what was said experience like? Let me put it like this, the ride I actually ended up on, was no where close to the one I thought I stood in line for. Since I hadn’t been to this amusement park before I tried to keep my expectations low to avoid being disappointed. Since this was something I said I would never do, eventhough I didn’t know exactly what it would be like, I did assume/expect it to be something that wasn’t toward the top of my list of enjoyable things. Let alone did I think it would have been something I would possibly do again, which is a big extreme from something I said I would never do.
Lots of people that visit amusement parks are happy to leave with a ridiculously oversized stuffed animal. Me, I’m happy with the daily smile and inner glow that came from not only trying something new that was for myself, but also as the result of an outcome that was quite the opposite of my assumptions.
It was a Facebook status on a friend’s page that made me realize just how special my birthdate is. My birthdate, March 4th, is the only date in the year that gives us a command/directive….March forth (4th). So with that, take at least one trip and March 4th into ‘Never Land’; who knows, it might be there that you find your ‘Happily Ever After’.
*FYI-Mom, Dad and anyone else wondering, no my ‘experience’ wasn’t anything illegal.
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