10/26/2026
“By now, you should have your life [and yourself] under control.”
Ever swallowed that one?
By forty, you should be settled, your grief should have become wisdom, and your wildness should know how to behave.
Then you find yourself crying on a treadmill over a life you actually love, wondering why you still haven’t gotten yourself together.
I’m beginning to question what “together” was supposed to look like… and how much of myself I’ve expected to edit out to get there.
Approaching forty, I have heartbreak I still feel, a life I wouldn’t give back, and enormous butterfly wings I fully intend to wear again.
I wrote about it on my blog, link below 🫶🏼
https://www.everyday-alignment.com/post/it-s-not-all-butterflies-rainbows-or-is-it