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Because you never know where life is going to take you

And you can't change where you've been -

But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

Here I am now looking at 30

and I've got so much to say.

Gotta get this off of my chest,

I've gotta let it go today.

I was always too concerned

about what everybody would think.

But I can't live for everybody -

I gotta live my life for me.

I have reached a fork in the road of my life and

Ain't nothing gonna happen unless I decide.

And I choose

To be the best that I can be.

I choose

To be authentic in everything

I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.

I choose.

I've been through some painful things

I thought that I would never make it though.

Filled up with shame

From the top of my head

To the soles of my shoes.

I've put myself in so many chaotic cirmstances.

By the grace of God

I've been given so many second chances.

But today I've decided to let it all go.

I'm dropping these bags,

**I'm making room for my joy.

And I choose

To be the best that I can be.

I choose

To be authentic in everything

I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.

I choose.

Because you never know where life is going to take you

And you can't change where you've been

But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

** Release the guilt about why things have been the way they been

'Cause life is gonna do what it do.

And every day, I have the opportunity to choose.

From this day forward I'm going to be

Exactly who I am.

I don't need to change the way that I live

Just to get a man.

Even had a talk with my mama,

And I told her today I'm grown.

This day forward, every decision that I make

Will be My Own.

And I choose

To be the best that I can be.

And I choose to be courageous in everything

I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.

I choose.

And I choose to be the best that I can be.

I choose to be authentic in everything I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.

I choose.

Because you never know where life is going to take you

And you can't change where you've been -

But today, I have the opportunity to choose.