Eid Mubarak to everyone. I hope you got the chance to celebrate this day with your friends and family.

In addition to this week being Eid, I also turned 27. I usually make a video for my birthday but since this year I couldn't I wanted to write some thoughts.

First things first. Getting older and coming to terms with it isn't easy for everyone. But for me, it has been smooth. Although I am closer to my 30s now, I feel great. My body age is actually younger according to the data. Funny thing is that I had the fitness of a 30-year-old when I was 24 and now at 27 I have the fitness of a 25-year-old. That's progress I want to continue.

Then there's the mental aspect of getting older. Your mind ages faster than your body which ends up influencing your body. In my case, my mind still thinks like a 20-year-old. I still say that I am in the seventh year of my 20s. Makes no sense at all but I feel great. I still feel the same excitement I had when I was 20. I think I am more excited nowadays. Every single morning feels great to be alive.

I was probably at my worst in 2019. A lot of things were wrong. But everything turned around in the next few years. One of the main changes I made was focusing on myself first. Prioritizing myself and accepting things that I had to work on. I couldn't go by society’s timeline and I had to carve my own path. If you are someone being swayed by society’s wave, someday you have to use your anchor. Someday you have to decide. That is the day you start to live and not just exist. Life is great when you actually live it. Great doesn't mean life is easy and fun. Great means you learn to embrace the challenges life puts forward and start living them. It's a small mindset shift but takes you a long way.