Birthday Smirthday....

Well, another year has come around and went already. My birthday has also come and gone. This year it has led me to some contemplation however.
I was asked by one of my very closest friends, who said "I already know the answer to this, but I have to ask...do you feel any older?" To which I replied, "NO! In fact I feel if anything younger than I have in years! I am in better shape and I am healthier than I have been in probably ten years!" Which I a very accurate statement I think. Which lead me to thinking about WHY had I waited so long for my health and fitness and well being to become such an important part of my life. The only answer I could come up with was that I had simply gotten lazy and complacent. Life was going well and I was comfortable. Since that time I have spent the last two years trying to undo the damage I had done to myself both physically and mentally over the time I had spent being lazy. So NOT worth being lazy I have decided! I will never again look at myself in the mirror and because of a choice to be lazy wonder what I have let happen to myself! I lost a part of me during that time of laziness, and I am not sure I will ever get that back. I will for sure be growing in other ways that will help compensate for whatever it was that I lost though.
So this year I say Birthday Smirthday! Let them come, let them go! As long as I am healthy and taking the best care of myself that I can, it doesn't matter! :)