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A Threshold, Not a Number

“How old are you?”

A question that arrives suddenly, like lightning in a clear sky.

If I answered with math, it would be easy: I was born in 1988 — just do the calculation.

But when I set numbers aside, I realize the truth is much more complex.

Since 2016, time hasn’t moved linearly for me.

It feels as if it stopped. Suspended. Frozen in a long stasis.

A season in which I put everything on hold except finding myself again.

And yet — they were not useless years.

They were not empty.

They were years of reconstruction. Of the heart. Of identity. Of the soul.

Years in which I looked at my wounds without needing them to disappear. Years in which I learned to stay. To understand. To let go.

I watched pieces of me fall away, and others remain — truer, deeper.

It was silent work. Profound. At times exhausting. But necessary.

And now, in this 2026, something feels different.

I feel rebirth. In Christ — and through Him — I finally feel ready.

Ready to dream again. Ready to build. Ready to welcome projects, adventures, life changes.

I find myself in an in-between land.

I am no longer who I was. But I am becoming who I was meant to be.

I’m approaching a birthday that isn’t just a number — it’s a threshold.

One I’m ready to cross without fear.

Free. Finally.

Free to try. Free to feel everything.

So how old am I, really?

Almost 28.

Because that’s how I feel: as if I’m standing at the door of 30 with an open heart, with the certainty that everything is possible — and that only now my life is beginning to take shape.

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