Well, being that this is my very first post on this new blog of mine I wanted to write about something exciting and interesting...But after sitting and pondering all the topics I want to discuss in the upcoming future I just couldn't make up my mind. Being the random person I am, I decided to do what I always do and just choose at RANDOM. So, I've chosen to go with friendships and lessons learned as my first big topic. I know, not completely exciting and interesting, but I think it is something that everyone can relate to.
I'm definitely not, nor have I ever been the most popular girl in school or in life. I don't have a long list of meaningless friendships but I do have a good handful of friends who brought meaning into my life. Friends who I may not talk to anymore for whatever reason but people who were there for me as I was there for them through what we felt were the most dramatic moments of our lives. I sit and wonder about them from time to time, search for them on facebook to see what they look like now, how many kids they have, whether they are married and how they are doing. I reminisce about our crazy days of youth when we would sneak out of the house, hang out at Denny's and have sleepovers and talk about the hottest or the baddest boys in school. I can't believe how much time has actually passed, how far I have come.
Friends, just like boyfriends and/or girlfriends come into our lives to stay for a short time, a little while or for a lifetime but they all leave imprints on our hearts, they all have lessons to teach us. I remember the days when it seemed like that broken heart was going to be broken forever, that the world as I knew it surely was ending before my eyes and I would never be able to go on. Alright, so I could have probably gotten the lead in the school's play with my dramatic episodes but like any teenager my problems were worse than everyone's and no one could possibly know the pain I was going through. Right? Wrong.
Now, that I am older and a mother myself I sit and laugh with my own mother about how naive and stubborn I was and probably still am according to her. :) My mother always did know best but to me she was just trying to control me, to ruin my life. She had no idea what I was going through...She was just my mom! Now, I know better...Maybe she always did know, maybe because she had been young once too. I am still my momma's crazy daughter who gives her more "silver" hair then she'd ever care to admit, but at least I ponder her advice now.
They say that hindsight is 20/20 and I couldn't agree more, I look back and laugh wondering what in the world I was thinking and why didn't anyone ever tell me how foolish and ridiculous I was? But that is what growing up is all about...Making those mistakes, getting your heartbroken, gaining best friends, losing those who were never your friend in the first place, making memories and bandaging skinned up knees.
So here's my question, my thought for you to ponder...
Take a trip down memory lane...Look up an old lost friend. Chat with your mother about all the advice you wish you had listened to that she gave you. And for those of you with children of your own...If you're wondering why your child just can't seem to make the right decisions or bring home a decent boyfriend or girlfriend. Remember you too were once driving your own parents crazy. It has nothing to do with you being the world's most horrible or greatest parent. It is just LIFE.
Onward and upward and shining on!
<3 The Nice Wife
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