It hit me
By keasling
@keasling (723)
United States
June 12, 2008 4:13pm CST
Have you ever found yourself walking and just realize your aspect on life? I was walking to my car in the Wal Mart parking lot and it hit. I am a mother of three kids and a wife of 11 years. I have a home and a cruddy running truck. I am behind on some debt but caught up on others. Looking around I see kids laughing and parents yelling. My life is of great significance but it is my life. I am a "soccer mom". I stay at home during the summer and I work with my kids school during the school. Heck I can't be the hours.. Has it ever just hit you what your life and what it means to you? Just really look around and see others and wonder what their story is? It is said everyone has a sob story and it may be true. Heck I can go on about how we lost our first home etc.. but do you ever wonder what a persons story is... I don't know maybe it is just me..
2 responses
@momoftwingles (129)
• United States
12 Jun 08
HA! I was out with my mom for lunch a few weeks ago and realized I was wearing "mom" jeans...... but yeah, sometimes its like "I HAVE THREE KIDS!" or "I've been married HOW long?"
I don't think about sob stories, but I do love hearing about others' journeys....If someone would have told me when I was a teenager (a very driven teenager) that I'd marry at 22 and have three special needs kids and be a stay at home mom and live in the country on a farm I would have laughed til I stopped breathing...and if they had even suggested that it was MY idea to live on a farm and have chickens and animals and a garden and homeschool and that I would do all of the "wacky" green eco-stuff I do...I would have thought they were insane! My plans were very different, but fortunately, God had bigger plans for me than I had for myself (I wanted to be a doctor (MD, pHD) and research fatty acid metabolism diseases....)... and I can't imagine my life any different than what it is right now. I feel like I am right where I am supposed to be.
@momoftwingles (129)
• United States
12 Jun 08
But don't you feel that you HAVE done something with your life? I guess that's my take on it. I would have thought that this life would have made me very unhappy. This isn't what I WANTED...but this is what, I believe, was meant to be...I married young because I fell in love and wanted to... I chose to be a wife and then later a mother. And I feel now that my life is very productive and meaningful. I don't feel that I am supposed to be doing anything else right now...I feel like I am where I am supposed to be. I love my life as a mother and wife and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. Many in my family don't have the option of being stay at home moms and love it that I am able to do this. The opinion of others is the last of any motivating factors I consider in my life....I, at all costs, must do what is right for my family and if my extended family felt/feels that I'm wasting my life by doing what I'm doing, I'm very comfortable letting them know that they are entitled to their opinion but it doesn't make them right and it certainly doesn't make my choice to be a homemaker wrong.
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
12 Jun 08
I have found myself realizing my meaning to life on numerous occaisions. I have been sitting in the woods and realize what my life is. And while many people may not think it is much of a life to me it is. To me my life is wonderful.
