Several years ago, someone ran an ad campaign with the catch phrase,
Reinvent Yourself. I cut out every one of those that I could find in
magazines and displayed them prominently in my house. I was inspired by
the phrase. I was going to change myself. I was going to fix everything
that was wrong and be a different person. I've been thinking about that
lately and wondering what I thought was wrong with me. What needed to
be fixed? I have faults like everyone else but fundamentally, I'm a good
person. It's time to like myself and admire the qualities that make
me who I am. I'm the institutional memory for my friends. I still send
cards in the mail. I will take care of your pet when you go out of town
even if the thought of that responsibility scares me to death. There are
things I need to work on (my laziness, my inability to take criticism)
but at the core of me is a good, decent human being who loves her family
and friends. I think those are qualities to embrace, not to reinvent.
Five Minute Friday is a writing event that has writers spending five minutes writing on the same topic and then sharing them at http://katemotaung.com/five-minute-friday/ . This week's word is Time. Sometimes time feels like this, like we are in it. Standing inside it, watching life pass by. It is so easy to get stuck in a time - in our pain, in our hurt. We hear the ache tick away in our head like a giant clock. Time, instead, is a gift. More time with family, more time to accomplish goals, more time to see the world. When you are hurting, it seems like time takes forever. One day turns into another day, turns into another day. When we hate a job, the five days of time that make up a work week seem to go on forever. But those five days are also a gift. Because these days, a job is not a guarantee. I want to see time as gift, not as a chore. I want to be on the other side of it, wishing there was more of it. Making the most of every hour, minute, and second instead of
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