"Like an atheist all dressed up / In his Sunday best / We're going through the motions / So emotionless / We thought that time would save us / But time just led us on / To finally become / What we were all along..."
~ Walk Away by Jon McLaughlin
As my 33rd birthday quickly approaches, I can definitely say I'm not where my former-self thought I would be by now. The 14-year-old me was pretty confident that she would be married and have three kids by the age of 25. And while that wasn't a far-fetched goal by any means, it clearly was not the path I was intended to follow. Always late to the party, I didn't date anyone or get my first kiss until I was 20. (No, there is no reason to re-live that memory...) After a few short, fairly insignificant romances, I met the person I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. Like every other fairy-tale romance, there was evil lurking in the shadows. (Okay, evil is a little harsh....I think...)