And So I Write

Whoa! I haven't posted since APRIL! Wow, how the last few months have consumed me and it's my fault for allowing it.

Sometimes life gets so overwhelming that I have to simply stop and remind myself to breathe. I'm so busy trying to reach goals, so I push through days and months passing time, forgetting to enjoy the moments that are happening now.

Occasionally, I just lose days and weeks because my brain is a whirlwind of to dos, financial obligations, trying to keep track of everyone else and appease everyone else.

And so I write...

I write to remind myself to slow down and enjoy the moment.

And so I write...

to force myself to take a moment to reflect on the days and weeks that have passed

And so I write....


There is so much that I can both laugh and cry about that has happened over the last few months but what bothers me the most is that the one thought continuously playing in my head is "what happened to last week?" or the worst I've thought so far, "what happened to June?" I spend so much time trying to get to the light at the end of the tunnel, but truthfully these highs and lows are all a part of life. Shit happens, right? So why sit around trying to make time go by faster than necessary. One day I'd like to be able to tell my children or grandchildren all the things their grand/parents had to do to survive and get through each day. I want to be able to say, "but those things didn't matter because we had each other and we know how to make each other smile." The problem is, how am I going to be able to tell those stories if I can't pull my head out of the sand and embrace EVERYTHING that is happening in my life, right here, right now.

Challenge: My challenge to both myself and my readers is to try to take the good with the bad without getting so caught up in the bad that you don't enjoy the good. Embrace the hardships because as hard as it is to believe right now, they too will pass.