{"id":110928,"date":"2022-03-22T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110928"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:16:27","slug":"getting-older-isnt-so-bad-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110928","title":{"rendered":"Getting Older Isn\u2019t So Bad After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110928\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110929 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thumbnail-1-1-300x201-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thumbnail-1-1-300x201-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thumbnail-1-1-300x201-1.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Nikki Slusher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This January was a big milestone for me. On New Year&#8217;s Day, I turned 27 and finally hit the middle age part of adulthood. This transition has led me down a path of reflection, understanding, and taking every opportunity that comes my way. There&#8217;s something bittersweet about entering your late twenties as a woman. Society tells us that once you&#8217;re above 22 that your value starts to decrease rapidly, or that we are no longer desirable. I was dreading every second leading up to my birthday because I wasn&#8217;t ready to enter that phase of life. As a young woman who grew up in the age of social media, you could say the emphasis on beauty and preserving your youth have drastically increased. In fact, I had to remove myself from the constant checking of my newsfeeds and comparisons to my friends&#8217; lives. They all seem so happy and perfect online that I felt like I was watching everyone take off while I&#8217;m still on the ground suffering from engine failures. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So when the inevitable happened and I turned 27 something inside of me changed. That morning I looked in the mirror and the person looking back at me still looked&#8230;well, like me. I was, and still am, the same person. I had to grasp the concept that I spent so much time worrying about a number for what? In fact, my 27th year around the sun has been exhilarating. I&#8217;ve stopped caring about what people think about me. I&#8217;ve also experienced tremendous success in my career over the last two months. Instead of losing a piece of myself, I&#8217;ve won more value in my life. The metamorphosis I had been fighting all along was one that I had deeply needed for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what comes next in my journey, and I&#8217;m still changing every day to become the woman I strive to be. I&#8217;ve learned a lot about myself in this short time; and maybe that&#8217;s the point of this thing we call life. We continually wake up and follow our routines until something halts us in our tracks and opens our eyes to what we&#8217;ve been missing in front of us this whole time.<\/p>\n<p>It was never about the parts of me that I would lose. Instead, it was always about discovering the pieces of myself that had been missing the whole time. While society may define beauty from a physical perspective, I&#8217;ve come to realize what the word &#8220;beauty&#8221; means to so much more than what I can offer on the outside. Life is like a song, if you skip a beat then it messes up the whole tempo; and from now on I&#8217;m sticking to my own rhythm.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nikki Slusher This January was a big milestone for me. On New Year&#8217;s Day, I turned 27 and finally hit the middle age part of adulthood. This transition has led me down a path of reflection, understanding, and taking every opportunity that comes my way. 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