How do I say this? I've been a nothing short of *itchy lately.
I have a million excuses I can give you:
My life is crazy.
I have 3 kids.
I work.
My commute to work sucks.
I have type 1 diabetes.
I am a mormon--- and sometimes that requires a lot of work.
My husband is a pilot.
My husband gets paid like crap even though he went to years of training to get to where he is at.
I don't live around family so don't have people to watch my kids.
My baby is 13 months old and I'm still trying to "lose the baby weight" (aka the weight I have carried around since I started having kids 8 years ago).
I usually have to hold up my house as a "single parent" (I am not really single, my husband is just gone a lot)
BUT guess what. I realized something today. I was out running while my kids were at their flag football practice. I turned on my music to track how far I was running. One of my favorite songs came on and started playing: "Changes" by 2Pac. As I listened to the words I realized something: 2Pac gets it. Why the hell don't I?
The following verse in particular stood out to me:
We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Seriously though. Guys... I have no excuse. I was not raised in a hard life by any means. I was raised by wonderful parents who taught me how to be honest and to be nice. My life is really everything I've ever wanted out of life. I may not have realized just how stressful and trying motherhood would be when I dreamed of it, but I still have everything I dreamed of. I have a choice and I can choose to be nice, no matter how I feel that day. I can choose to reach out to people and treat them better, no matter their circumstances. I don't have to let this crazy year and crazy life make me bitter. I can choose to make the best of it and just be nice. Time for some changes people! "the old way wasn't working" so "let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other".
