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Settling into your skin

I never change, I simply become more myself.  Joyce Carol Oates

I have LOVED my 30's.  LOVED THEM.  Why?  Because I have settled into my skin.  I'm still doing some settling but mostly I've become comfortable in myself.  So while it seems to others, and even myself, that I have changed I haven't really.  I've just become more myself.  Some people have decided they don't like who I am and we have parted ways.  That's okay.  Some people have decided they do like who I am and they have stuck around.  That's okay.  And yet others (probably the ones closest to me - family and spouse) have decided that they don't know who I am and they are watching me settle in and the jury might still be out!  Ha!  That's okay too.  There are days that I look at myself and wonder, "Who AM I?"  And there  are days that I'm not sure if I like who I am, who I'm not, who others think I should be.  And then I remember that I'm settled and settling.  Becoming more of me.  And then I'm okay.  How about you? 

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