I've had a revelation...

[hannahjoy17]

Life sucks sometimes. It seems like every time I start to get my feet back under me emotionally, something else comes up and knocks me over again. You know you are in a bad place emotionally when you feel like sobbing over the death of MJ...just because he is gone, forever, suddenly, tragically.

It is easy to focus on the junk in life: my parents divorcing, stress, pain, laundry. It is so much harder, but infinitely more rewarding to choose to see the things that will make you smile.

I cannot let my the circumstances of my life rule my emotions! I am missing too much! I think especially in this day and age women are completely drug down and defeated by the things going on in and around their lives. As the mom, we feel it is our responsibility to fix everything and keep it together, working as it should. We let the crud of life mire us down in depression, anxiety, sleepless nights, and surliness. How many times has my husband come home with a smile on his face only to have it wiped off in record time by my grumpiness?

So today is day one in my journey to learn how to remain in this world, but not of it. To be intricately involved in the lives of those I love, but learn when to pull back to protect myself and my little ones. To realize that my children and husband, but even more importantly I have a right to happiness. And that happiness is worth getting up every morning and fighting for.

Join me?

Tags: happiness, life, anxiety, sadness, journey, choices, revelation

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