13x30 Project
Tue, 9/28/2010 - 5:12am GMT
Shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, I submitted my online application for disability benefits. The following day I mailed out the first sixty of what is probably a three or four hundred page file chronicling my life according to others, starting at age six. My life is so focused on the past - what was and "what if..."
Now, I am determined to discover myself, and become someone whose stories are not just about what I've been through, but what I am doing. I want to realize my daydreams. I want to achieve thirteen things by my 30th birthday.
-----ThirteenX
This is awesome! I am kinda doing the same thing. I got on disability last year and I am 28 now. Since I have been on it I have still been unemployed and am working with an employment agency but it seems i am just "unemployable" with what is out there right now. There is no appropriate place for me in the world of work. I was depressed about this for a long time after all I worked hard to get a college degree etc... But lately I am finding myself going back to old interests and finding new ones. It's been really refreshing. I am taking circus and aerial classes, signing up to run in marathons, going back to gymnastics again it is so different as an adult but I REALLY still love it. I am going on rock climbing trips. I am volunteering some. I am trying to enjoy my life even though I don't have a place with family or work like most adults do and I am discovering more things I like and who I truly am. Without the pressure to conform to achieve something that works in the world I am free to just be me. I don't know where it will lead but I'm glad that I was able to turn this depressing time into something good.
I'm so happy for you!