Every Single Day I Choose Joy
I read a comment today from a follower who said I was glossing over the hard parts. I’ve been thinking about it all day.
It’s a funny comment from where I’m sitting actually. Most people tell me I’m too negative. They find the realities of my world to be depressing. Even though they are indeed, the realities of so many.
Here is what I will tell you.
I’m not glossing over the hard. It’s here, right under the surface. Always ready to creep in. And at any moment, if I let it, I will crumble over the things my son hasn’t done, and may never do.
If I let myself think about the conversations missed, the moments, the future, it will level me. That is the truth.
So every single morning I wake up and choose joy.
I consciously tell myself that I am going to have an amazing day. That I am going to see the beauty in this life. This secret world of no words, paper, and staying young forever.
I am going to find the beauty nestled in the hard.
Here is my advice, don’t wait for life, motherhood, parenting, or your child’s challenges to get easier, simpler or better.
I spent way too long waiting for life to get easier. I was always waiting for easy. I’d tell myself, when we get into that new therapy it will be better and then I’ll be happy. When he starts talking then it will be easier and I will be happy. I was waiting.
I was missing my life. I was missing his life.
Parents, learn to be happy right now. In your life at this moment. Otherwise, you’ll blink and you’ve run out of time. Your children will be grown.
And for the person who thinks I am glossing over the hard…
Some days choosing joy is easy for me. Other days it is an all out battle. But I fight for it with all I have.
We only have one life. One beautiful life.
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