Meet Me Where I Am.

Wild and Rotten.

So be it. To everything there is a time.

As I sit here listening to “Wild and Rotten” by Mt. Joy on repeat, I cannot think of anything else other than of how grateful I am with the life I have been given, with the opportunities that have presented themselves to me, and to know that everything that is meant for me will be and come to me.

Wild and Rotten

I love my life. Not because it’s perfect, not because it’s always easy—but because it’s mine. I get to wake up and choose how to live. That alone is wild. That’s a gift.

We were dealt cards that people beg and pray for. The kind of freedom people fight for. We get to cry and scream and dance and fall in love and start over and laugh until our stomachs hurt. Again and again.

We get to live however we want- and that is not something to take lightly.

We get to feel everything.

That is living.

We forget how insane it is that we’re even here. Breathing. With the power to say “yes” to anything. Want to change your job? Move cities? Start a band? Shave your head? Fall in love with someone unexpected? You can. No one’s stopping you but you.

“Maybe all this change is just freedom,” says Mt. Joy. Maybe the mess, the uncertainty, the constant evolving—is actually liberation. Maybe it’s not that we’re lost, but that we’re finally unlearning the pressure to stay still, stay quiet, stay small. Maybe this is what it feels like to be alive in the truest sense.

We forget how lucky we are to even be here. With a body that moves. A brain that dreams. A heart that still wants more, no matter what it’s been through. We can do anything. We can change our minds. Start new chapters. Create a version of life that makes us feel proud to be in it.

Because reality is: if you’re not recognizing how good your life is right now, you’ll miss it.

Let’s say that again for the people in the back.

IF YOU’RE NOT RECOGNIZING HOW GOOD YOUR LIFE IS RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE GOING TO MISS IT.

You’ll miss the miracle in the mundane. The softness in the chaos. You’ll miss the rare beauty of this moment—the one you’re standing in. You have to soak it all in. All of it.

Because as we keep growing up, life gets heavier. Heartbreak finds us. People we love leave. Things change, often without warning. We lose things. We lose people. And none of it is fair. But your foundation—your deep knowing that this is your life and it is good—will carry you. Even in the hard seasons.

And if it doesn’t feel good right now, if it feels confusing or painful or off-track—then maybe this part is just preparing you for something better ahead. Because it always gets better. And you are always growing toward something.

So please, love with all you have. Be wild with your love. Be reckless in your gratitude. Be rotten in your joy. Be grounded in the truth that this is your one, precious life—and it is yours to live fully.