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They Say It’s Your Birthday

As if taking off on a year-long trip wouldn’t be a whirlwind enough on any old day of the year, I’ve chosen to begin this journey on my birthday. Attempting to field calls from family and close friends—or at least to fire off responsive “thank you” texts to well-wishers—I wonder what I was thinking when I decided to have these two events converge.

#NoDayBuToday

I'm really doing this. I'm going to take an entire year to travel around the world, experience a bunch of places I've never visited, engage in some serious self-reflection, and figure out what the "Third Act" of my life is going to look like.