After I wrote this, I felt like I had written this exact same post before. Am I repeating myself? Am I running out of things to say? I hope not. Maybe I just need to keep regurgitating the same stuff until it becomes my reality.
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So much about life is simply perspective. I have good days and bad days. I have days when I wonder what the hell I’m doing with my life. And then I have days when I say wow I’m doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing.
I’ve been waiting for months and months for our house to sell. It WILL sell. But I’m not waiting anymore. I’m not putting things on hold. I’m not waiting to pursue business. I’m not going to delay starting my son in preschool. I’m moving forward. It may suck. Just when I get comfortable with the state of waiting, we may sell our house and have everything uprooted.
But I’m cool with that. If we keep waiting for our ship to come in, we may spend our lives waiting and waiting.
So what’s driving this? I had a day like anyone else. I got to sleep in a little which is good since my sleep was interrupted AGAIN by a certain 4 year old. I got to make breakfast for everyone but my husband who slept in even more. I got to catch up a little in this whole online world. I had some good emails come in today. I got to spend time playing Imaginext (although I’m still not exactly sure how to “play” with a 4 year old like this. I try.) I got to cook. I made a soup from scratch and some cornbread.
I ended the day with a very whining 4 year old who was bored out of his mind. Who complained the entire time during the quick run to the grocery store. And then we had dinner and he proclaimed it was the best ever.
Now I’m spoiling him with some ice cream before bed while we listen to Pink’s “Raise Your Glass.” Yes, it’s the explicit version. No, I don’t think he’s heard the dirty words yet. But we both pumped our fist in the air and sang until we were both grooving and smiling.
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LOVED this! Thank you for hosting it Fadra. I joined for the first time and I might have had a Smirnoff before writing….so it should be interesting.
Your post ended on such a high note! Wow, you have a TON of stress going on right now. But you are so right to just forget it and move forward! I love that you put on the Pink song and fist pumped. What a great attitude 🙂
You are absolutely right that it’s all about perspective. I’ve been in a personal funk lately, but I’m determined to beat it this week… it helps to remind myself that I need to be aware of how I’m looking at things. Here’s to more good days!
It can be scary…but I think living in limbo is much worse, long-term, than diving right in. I’ve done the limbo thing, and it sucks.
Ice cream before bed and loud singing is always a good way to end a day….and a great way to release some stress.
I hope your house does sell very soon. I am sure is very frustrating, but I agree you just have to keep on doing what you bare doing daily! Love that you were fist pumping to raise your glass….lol!!!
Lovely post! I agree that it’s important that when life seems at a stand still, it’s all the more important to continue living, to continue moving forward. I think so often we treat “waiting” as if it is a state of being, as if “waiting” is really doing something tangible. It’s not. As we wait, we must continue to do other things.
Waiting is the worst, I think you are definitely doing the right thing by just forging ahead! I myself keep waiting for things to fall into place and keep telling myself I will do A when B falls into place…
I did it. I finally joined up for SOC 😉 I love that pink song and have been known to do the same thing with my kiddo and don’t worry about the house. It will sell 🙂
There is a first time for everything! Instead of reading everyone’s post I actually linked up this week. Problem is I put on the linky wrong and it doesn’t link to the post. Thus why I am linked twice. Sorry 🙁 I’ll get it right next week!
Loved this post! Something about real life and icecream. 🙂
i think you were in my head this morning … or i was in yours … either way – love this post :0)
I now want wine AND ice cream after reading this. Yikes.
I love your SOCS, it’s like eavesdropping on a very juicy conversation. I could never do it b/c then you’d so so much crazy, you’d be afraid to ever make contact with me again.
But I love your Sunday posts.
I’m right there with you– if we all waited until the conditions were perfect to proceed with our lives and our plans, we’d never get anything accomplished. (I certainly know people like that, and it makes me sad to see their perpetual unhappiness.) You make the best with what you have, and sometimes it even turns out better than the version you planned because you couldn’t have know what would happen in the meantime.
Its an excellent song, explicit, and all. I would totally play it in front of my 4 year old =)