age 27-30 is usually our first saturn return. It's a time of deep reflection. We're finally adults, and so we're facing adulthood absent of our parents' wishes and desires for us. We begin to take stock of our careers, personal family life, and creativity. We start to define our own values and begin to live by them.
Can you make a video about getting out of your comfort zone? I know what's holding me back from a lot of things is that I'm too comfortable where I'm at but I need to step out and do more to get further. Maybe you can talk about ways to "stretch" your comfort or exercises you can do to help expand your comfort zone?
I was 27 years old in 1987….was married, had a bachelors degree that took me 7 years to get going part time, had 2 children and worked a full time job! I also crocheted and I love seeing you do it too. I admire your wisdom and curiosity about the world. I wish I had a 30 year old son to introduce you to! I enjoy watching your channel and my only advice would be don’t try to do it “all” at the same time. I was very aggressive and always wanted more than I had. Now I look back and wish I had found a way to stay home with my kids instead of the daycare rat race. I think you are doing great and I look forward to your videos! Happy birthday to you! 🍰🎉❤️
Wishing you a very happy birthday!! 27 is one of the ages I look back on with the most fondness. I hope the same for you! I hope this trip around the sun is your best yet ☀️ I am in my early 30’s now and personally I have been loving this chapter so much more than my 20’s. My best wisdom would be to encourage you to continue embracing your uniqueness & prioritizing what you want out of life. There can be so much societal pressure (and internal pressure we put on ourselves) to achieve certain milestones but I’ve really learned to question if those life paths that are “expected” of me are what I even truly want for myself. Be bold in how you craft your life. Do it for you and the rest will fall into place 🫶🏻
I’m 53. I’m doing my Masters degree. I have no idea what I’m doing with my life or where it will take me from here but I’ve had fun on the way. If I had advice it would be a cliche; enjoy the journey! Happy Birthday! x
Congrats on doing your Masters at this age, Suzy. At almost 51, I can relate to how you feel about life. I did have amazing adventures in my 20's and 30's. I applied to do a Masters Degree in France last year, to completely turn my life upside down but didn't get accepted. I have been thinking about it lately though, whether I should try again. I have been following Caitlin since University, and I so resonate with her. Good luck and keep having fun, life will work itself out. Trust the process.
Happy Birthday! Crochet tip. Crochet over the tails of previous rows and rounds for 6-8 stitches whenever you can. That may be enough to consider them woven in, or at least a good start to the weaving process. Plus, you can make the ends/tails a little bit shorter, thereby using less yarn overall.
My parents had me at 27 too, I had the same feeling when I turned 27 it was a lot of different emotions. I’ll be turning 35 this year - after 30 I stopped caring 😂
Belated happy birthday Caitlin! I find you so peaceful as a creator and it is the reason i keep gravitating towards your videos. You have a great sense of work-life balance and you're such a warm, wise person! 🥰🫶
Dearest Caitlin, A very happy birthday to you ! I've been following for years now and your birthday is always a time for reflection for me: I'm only 10 months older than you so when you celebrate another year, I look back on the last 10 months. 27 was the age of adventure of me: I was worried that I lost so many years postponing my dreams because of the pandemic so by my 27th birthday, I had asked a sabbatical from my very stable job, which I left in October. Ever since, I've travelled to Japan, spent quality time with my loved ones and I finished Adriene's 30 Days of Yoga while moving to Ireland ! Just before moving, my childhood friend told me she was pregnant so I understand the anxiety of timelines ! I wish you happiness, adventure, enjoying your home, creativity and FUN !
Happy birthday ❤ ! I love celebrating my birthday:) maybe I should try yoga, I always thought it was too hard, but maybe it’s not as hard as I think if I start small 😊
Happy birthday!! I was going to write all my profound thoughts about your video, but it was turning out really sad and pitiful, so I'm just gonna say the obvious, enjoy every minute of every day, hug everyone and tell them how much you love them and keep being the incredible person that you are. I'm 46 and wishing so much to return to those days of connections and closeness with my friends before our lives drifted apart. Ok, stoping the pity party now, best wishes for this new year of life!!!
Happy Birthday! I am 67 years old. I always thought that 30 would be my most difficult birthday, but no, it was 27! It really stressed me out. Made me feel so uncertain. I wish I could offer you a sparkling gem of advice but nope, I just struggled through it. I am happy to say that all my other birthdays were not traumatic. Enjoy your milestones. Find joy in all the little everyday things as well as the biggies. But I feel you know all this already. Many happy returns sweet girl!
On the subject of what you were doing while making a granny square: I am working on a hexagon blanket, and the majority of the hexagons were made while I was standing in line at Disneyland. So I guess I can look back on this blanket thinking about Disneyland. Happy birthday! I've got a month until 27, so this was a great video right now.
I just turned 30 and something I would have told my 27 year old self is that I was right to prioritize my body and my mind over other things that were happening at the time. Since then I changed my life so much. I feel healthier than ever, I've got my Master's degree, my job just fell into my lap and I love it and my husband also just kinda fell out of nowhere. It's crazy how much of a change we can make by prioritizing our thoughts, energy,time, and intentions.
Happy belated birthday! Can’t believe another year has gone by and I followed you while you were at UofT 😭 love and appreciate your content, hope you had a great time!
Happy Birthday Caitlin! I get a sense that you're struggling with things and perhaps the passage of time, in your last videos. I can feel a sort of melancholy that I understand oh so well (or maybe I'm projecting haha). I think the most important thing is to nurture your relationship with yourself and others. And finding the balance in that. When I was your age (what am I, 67??), I forgot myself so much into a toxic relationship which caused me to sort of over-correct course and work so much inward that there are a lot of good relationship I could've also nurtured but forgot to. I'm talking family and platonic relationships, of course. But I also reconnected with my creative side and I love that you are also doing that for yourself. Never hesitate to reach out to your loved ones
happy belated birthday!! recently turned 24 too and I wish I can bookmark the things you said. birthdays feel like a sudden reminder that I will never be as young as I am now, and suddenly there's a sense of urgency to be at my very best. I'm certainly not the best in handling how relationships change with age and the work that comes with nurturing them, but I guess I'm trying to be better at accepting things at face value and understanding that it's worth the effort to nurture.
Everyone has something they wish they had done differently in life but I would give you advice that if you have a good family (which I know you do) spend as much time with them as you can and really be present. I am about to be 44 and I lost my mom to cancer when I was 39. All of my grandparents have passed and it's only my dad left now. Even though I spent a lot of time with my parents, I wish I could have had more time. I miss big family Christmas and holidays with cousins and grandparents etc. I remember dreading them when I was younger and now they're some of my fondest memories. Enjoy your family as much as you can :) That's my advice!
Do you have any tips for making friends in your mid/late twenties? I‘m also quite independent and a lot of my university girlfriends have moved away so I find it hard to build new, deep meaningful connections!
i'll be 23 on march 7 and last year i turned off my phone and cried all day long. i have no idea where that need came from. normally i'd love my birthdays but now i am so scared for some reason.
I think the biological clock countdown all women feel when they reach their late 20's and into their 30's is such a difficult experience unique to women. I find comfort remembering that I can adopt so I can always have children if I really want to. If you have the money for it, there's always egg freezing too, though I don't think you need to worry about that at 27.
Im really trying to get into non-fiction but I always end up picking up a fiction book instead. Do you have any tips for prioritising non-fiction over (or in addition to) fiction ? I’m just completely lacking the motivation …🫤📖 Oh and thank you so much for sharing Caitlin, I really resonate with a lot of what you said. Especially the ‘pressure’ you feel as a woman about having kids etc at a certain time. Now in my 30’s that pressure has increased to close to boiling point and I get very anxious about it when I think about it ! (So I try to not to! 😅) Love the way your videos are feeling at the moment…like talking to a friend 😊❤keep going your doing amazing!
