What is beautiful in my life?
Right now in my life there is beauty in the learning processes that I am going through. Of course the process of my formal education is great, but I'm talking about my personal journey...
I am in a phase where I am constantly contemplating what it is that I want out of this blink we call life--what is truly important to me. I realize more and more each day just how short my time here is. Things that I used to stress about (and still do to some extent) are the things that I am teaching myself to let go. This is a very difficult but very freeing experience. I am learning self-acceptance; that I'm not a superwoman, although I am a super woman.
Being a newlywed, I am learning things about my husband that one can only know by living under the same roof with a spouse. Not only do I know what his "roses really smell like, ooh ooh ooh..." but I am learning how to compromise in ways that I never dreamed of.
In the past five months, I have watched my brand new nephew, Ahston Jordan Gilbert grow and change in the most fascinating ways. Never have I been so close to a baby before. He is in the beginnings of rolling over. His smile lights up his face. He has blue-gray eyes curtained by thick eyelashes. People say babies all look alike, but I could pick this little man out of a million! It makes me want one of my own so badly, but I'll just kidnap him for a while until we're ready.
What is beautiful in my life?
Looking at a pile of dirty clothes and sometimes forcing myself to sleep instead of doing them, arguments over who left the lights on, getting to hold a precious baby boy without having to change mountains of poopy diapers...
What isn't beautiful in my life?
3 comments:
This is so lovely ^_^ I love this part: ...that I'm not a superwoman, although I am a super woman.I don't mind babies in small doses--very small--but you're right about the poopy diapers! :D I haven't had to change a diaper in 10 years and I don't plan to any time soon.
Gorgeous! And oh, so true. Take time to appreciate those finer things, and don't sweat the small stuff; it's all small stuff. :)
Well done . . . that last line will haunt and challenge me all day . . .
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