It’s funny where we end up in life. Very often, we find ourselves in places or doing things, for better or worse, that we never imagined when we were younger.
How about when you had your first baby, and you had to face the most disgusting diaper ever? Remember those sometimes endless nights of being up with your very sick child, cleaning up after her when she didn’t make it to the bathroom in time? Perhaps, instead, to make ends meet, you had to live in a place about which you’re embarrassed, or you had to take a job at which you felt overqualified.
Very possibly, you and I have a lot in common. I have done things with and for my children that still I can’t believe I had to do. I have taken jobs where I hoped no one I knew would find out what lowly position I held, and I have lived in places that, while fiscally responsible, were decorated in what my hubbie lovingly dubbed, “Early American yard sale”.
And we have survived all of this, and so much more. Being able to look back through that 20/20 corrective lens of hindsight, it wasn’t as bad or hopeless or endless as we sometimes thought. Oftentimes, what seemed to be a particularly difficult time or place, in retrospect offered lots of experience, a dose of humility, occasionally a funny story, and yet another fresh start.
Surprisingly, I find myself here now, a blogger, ready to share with you, writing about how we live our lives, and how we can move forward and be better, to find happiness wherever we are, and to share in the journey. I welcome you to this dawning day, and hope that you, too, will discover so many reasons to be too darn happy!
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