My 28th Birthday
Another year has passed. I am 28 now. In just two years, I’ll be 30… and I honestly can’t believe it. How did I grow up so fast? It still feels unreal. It feels like just yesterday I was 18 busy preparing for my wedding, stepping into a completely new phase of life without truly understanding what it meant. And now… it has been 10 years of my marriage. Time really doesn’t slow down, does it? And here I am again, sitting with my thoughts on the night before my birthday trying to make sense of everything this year has been. But the truth is… I still don’t know where life is taking me. And maybe, I’m slowly learning to be okay with that. This year felt different. Not because everything suddenly became perfect. but because somewhere in between all the chaos, I could actually see myself moving forward. I’ve reached the second year of my PhD. Even now, it feels strange to say it out loud. There are still days when I doubt myself when I feel like I’m not doing enough, not being enough. But de...
