I was thinking, life is short once you finally get what it's all about. First you are young, teenager, think you know it all, and are immature (but don't think you are). Then you go off to school (well sometimes, not in my case) and again, think you know everything but are still getting things handed to you left and right because you are still a dependant. You have no idea what the real world is all about, but you think you do. You think you have a good handle on it. That's what you thought.
Then you graduate and it hits you. Life. Reality. Responsibility. Moving out on your own. Your own apartment, your first house. Bills. Your bills. Repairing things. Cars breaking down. Unexpected bills you did not count on. Falling in love. Getting your heart broken or getting married. It's all big stuff. It's what life is made of. But you have no idea when you are not grown up. Your body can be grown up but you are not grown up. And the scary thing is, some people in this world NEVER grow up. And they don't know it. They are grown adults, working, paying bills, owning homes, having kids, but never grew up. Worse than kids at heart, it's more than that. It's a selfish streak. Pouring money into more debt watching it fly out the window. For those people it will never click. They probably will never get it.
Usually it just takes one event; one life event to knock it all into place for someone. After that, you just get it. Doesn't even have to be a horrible experience. Can just be a big one. Something that matters.
Life is short once you figure it out. Because the moment it all comes together, suddenly it starts flying by. Fast forward. Who pushed that button? Take one guess.
--J
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
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