Sometimes I go through the camera roll on my phone and just scroll through the pictures. I have a few years of pictures on my phone and at some point I’ll upload them to Shutterfly and make a photo book to be printed so I still have the pictures but can delete them off my phone. I’ve done that once before. The pictures on there now really tell a story and so it’s definitely a trip down the proverbial “memory lane” when I look through them. I was doing this last night and I came to a series of screenshots I had taken in the spring of this year. I snapped several of them from Facebook and Instagram on random posts that would pop up from groups that I don’t even follow. Or I would see them posted by friends. The ones I saved really spoke to me and honestly, they still do. I decided to collect them here in case someone else could use some inspiration. I included my thoughts on some of them, but on others, the text speaks for itself.

I am indeed learning how strong I am. But I also want people to know what I’ve endured so that they know it’s possible to overcome difficult things too.
And I’m still gone! Getting out of my old job was difficult, but it was time and now that I’m out of there, I have worked diligently to sever every tie I ever had to the place.
This one hit my heart in a big way! I was never meant to be who I was, but I’m loving who I am now.
So good I took a screenshot of this same quote twice when I saw it on two separate occasions.
This one makes me cry. This has evolved in its meaning over the past year. The “right now” changed because who I was “right now” has also changed.
A lot of people who knew the real reason I quit my job encouraged me to tell more people the real reason I quit. Still haven’t done it yet.
This wasn’t easy to do! But it’s 100% true!
I’m finally starting to fly again.

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Middle-aged Maverick is indeed middle-aged and she’s proud of it. She has a tendency to over think and over analyze many of the things she encounters in her life, as evidenced in many of her posts. She knows how to drive a stick-shift car, prefers Coke over Pepsi, and spent many of her adolescent years being obsessed with Jim Carrey.

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