I’ll admit I’m a fan of positivity and a good outlook on life and self. But life isn’t always flowers and giggles.
There are a lot of blogs out there. Thousands. And a good majority of the more popular ones focus on happiness, positivity, having a good self image, having a beautiful home, being able to take time for self care and business care.
And that’s all well and good. And I won’t say I’m not the same. I do talk about feeling good, or wanting to anyways. But I don’t. The real deal is that life is tough.
It’s hard to find time for self care let alone time for my relationship or working on a business. I’m lucky that I don’t have housework to do, I just have a baby to take care of it but it is hard work. There’s no time left in the day.
I would like to say I’m a good blogger that my house is perfect and my son and I take beautiful walks to the park and it’s all rainbows and positive vibes all the time. It’s not. And it never will be, I don’t expect it to be and I don’t expect your life to be that way either.
I think the best we can hope for, the best we can strive for is to be happy, to have time and to smile and be at peace more often than not. I’m not there yet, but I want to be.
Are you in a place that you are more often happy? What is the story behind your real deal?
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K – I adore you. I don’t get to chat with you often (at all) anymore, but you’re still a huge source of inspiration to me. I am still in awe of you. And I still absolutely love your honesty. Great post.
Answer: no. I am absolutely not in a place where I am most often happy. Happy comes maybe two days out of every seven. More on a particularly good week. Most often I’m very “meh,” and some days I’m just downright bad. I don’t blog about it because I don’t know how. I’ve been trying, but there’s a fine line, I’ve found, between whining and telling-it-like-it-is. For me. I always feel whiny. Maybe someday I’ll find it within myself to trust people enough to be honest with them. Until that day, I’m content to bottle everything up and hope the cork holds for one more day.
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I managed some happiness earlier today (getting some school done, driving slowly to admire beautiful fall light shining through leaves) but tonight sucks and there are tears. (Mine.) Sigh.
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