Letters to our Young Selves...

Surely, many of us have been broken hearted before in our younger days. Maybe a cute guy have referred to us as ugly/fat/crater face or worse, we've been bullied. Again, maybe, we've had a bad sexual experience, an illness, death of a parent/sibling...
When we are going through these difficult times, we truly believe that our lives are over and the pain and hurt will never end! In hindsight, everything does turn out to be alright, or at least the pain and hurt is not as pronouced! Those are the times in our lives where we would have liked someone to tell us "don't worry, everything will be okay."

The following is the letter in which I would confess to my:

Dear 17-18 years old girl,

You got mom worried. She told you that if you eat too much you will get fat. Then you stopped to eat all the fat foods. She made you conscious about the food you ate and to lose the weight, you did the yo-yo dieting. Then you bought those dieting pills... and when you lost the weight, she turned around and phoned your elder sister because you were losing so much weight?

You felt good, but deep down you still felt ugly.

Why did you bother you pretty girl?

I know why. You wanted somebody to tell you "You are beautiful." To have a mother who could listen to Unpretty and understand you. You were strong for your self, but that was okay. Although you think you lost the weight for yourself, you did it because deep down you were acting on those words.

Let me tell you girl, you will find comfort and support through your poetry. You will then find true love when you least expect it a few months down the line. The person will love you because you are beautiful from the inside.
You will still have the extra pounds but you will know which clothes to wear to flatter the body. You will enjoy the curves because they make you a really beautiful woman. You will undertand that you are gracious in the 501 Lewis - you will buy them again to show off your curves :)!. You will champion your natural looks.

As you can read, everything will turn out alright. You will love life in full: with all it has to offer and more! You will see the queen in your self and you will cherish her! Because you will learn to appreciate life through the half full glass...

Always,

Your quasi-30something Self!

If you had the chance to go back and confess something to your younger self, what would you say?

Please take this time and confess something that happened to your younger self and what you would say to them! Help someone else in the process while helping your younger self!

The Confessions of 30-something

Introducing...

The Confessions of 30-something... isn't that a fantastic title for something fun and amazing... Oh, we are going too fast, let's go slow. We have something fantastic in mind...

So, why another blog? You might ask.

We want to start another blog because we think it would be fabulous for women coming of age – the thirties and there about – who love blogging to get together online and share secrets about everything related to life. As we move towards-through-and over our 30s, there are different aspect about life that come up: love relationships, motherhood, children, family life, health, beauty, friends, sex, money and many more things that we don’t necessarily want to share with everyone in real life but which we don’t mind talking and sharing online. The Confessions of 30s (TC30s), which we hope will turn into a website, is a platform for women to talk about their life experiences including some difficult issues such as conceiving and the ‘shame’ that one feels with it!

As we were writing this this blog entry, Lisa Ling’s website Secrets Society of Women came to mind. Her mission is to have a platform dedicated to women who need to speak about issues that sometimes are unspeakable in real life! On the blogsphere we want to be able build the a similar platform. Anothe inspiration for this new venture is Oprah. From 1st January she's broadcasting her biggest challenge ever since she started Oprah Winfrey Show. OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) is a simple and proof that anything can happen if you believe in your dreams strong enough.

Life is about experimenting with new thoughts, ideas and experiences and for us there is so much still to experience. Some of us have watched their 20somethings gone by without realising their dreams - but that doesn't matter because now we have to think about how great and better we can make our 30s and above. Like the number shows, everything comes in the perfect number 3. Therefore we hope together we can embrace our 30somethings with arms wide open and make the most of it so that in years to come we can say we can confess 30-something!

We are very inspired by Oprah and Lisa, it's symbolic to launch The Confessions of 30-something as a community from January 1st. We are novice on the blogsphere but we have the passion and enthusiasm to inspire others. We aim to focus on the greater things we can achieve in our daily lives, individually and collectively! We hope this blog will allow us to meet various other bloggers and engage in conversations that will not only enable us to grow but to develop into our better selves as we move through our fabulous 30s!

The idea is just developing right now so we are open to suggestions, ideas and new inspiration! Feel free to connect with us so that we can begin to Confess and share our lives with one another. Let us start dreaming big from the 1^st of January 2011 with long term vision to build and grow into something amazing!

We would love our fellow bloggers to begin this venture with us! If you are about creeping away from your 20s and into your 30s and even passed it....and interested in this new venture send us an email to confessions30@gmail.com CONFESSIONS30[at]GMAIL.COM