We talked today about "Finding joy in the journey" and I thought about all I have been through that people are so impressed by. And I think that I owe it all to my parents who taught me to have fun in numerous situations that weren't so great growing up. Only kids of my father would beg to go to the grocery store with him because we could have our own mini carts to push around and feel important. Only would my father would take a simple task like writting on a peice of paper "I promise that I will not sue the owners of this pool if my daughter gets hurt at this young women's activity" and turn it into a two page document of the silliest thing you've ever read. Only my mother could make me laugh everytime I hear "monkeybutt" because she could laugh at it through the pain of traveling on a family vacation with us. Only my mother would come up with the twelve nerds of Christmas where everyday had some nerdy kind of theme to do. Only she could lay there in the most excrutiating pain in the world and still laugh at my stupid jokes and watch silly movies.
I really owe all my laughter and easy-goingness to the people who raised me to see that life is more than the dance I didn't get asked to or even the baby I lost last May. They helped me learn that I make my life fun and no one is going to do it for me. No one can make me happy, it's a choice I make everyday. So, I encourage you to learn what you can from the hard times and turn around and make those times as fun as you can. Like a country song says, "Your going to miss this, your going to want this time back. Your going to wish these times hadn't gone by so fast."
3 comments:
Kimi, I have had my share of the chaotic random crap that life hands out. There can be a week, maybe two where, I will be so down, more down sometimes than I know what to do with it, but I always, always laugh at it. I have always been able to do that. The ridiculousness of it all, the silliness sometimes of the tally I have amassed. I laugh at others inability to laugh. I am one goofy-ass girl Kimi, and if I were not, I don't think I would have survived this long. Sometimes, if you don't laugh at it, you will end up crying, so I laugh! I have always liked laughing with you.
Kimi, I loved that post it made my day. I am sorry that you lost a baby in May that is really hard. I hope things in that department become better. I miss seeing you, hope all is well.
Tara Nichol
Hey are you in YW too? That is what I had to teach about this past week. It was hard as I too have been through alot.
I am sorry about your loss I never knew. You are always soo funny and positive unless we are talking about our jobs at time. I love you though.
I loved the stuff about your parents and the 2 page document from your dad, do you still have it? If so I have to read it. Isn't it silly we have to cover our butts soo that no one will sue. AND I love that country song. Thanks for your post
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