If life were easy

Then who would truly enjoy it?

If you take the time to really think about it life is about the mistakes we make and the lessons we learn from it. Growing into adulthood and becoming the person you will be for the rest of your life is the greatest task and the most rewarding we will ever take on. Marriage, children, and even some cases divorce are all things that come along with all of our journey's. Some of these are surprises and some are planned but regardless of how we come into them or out of them we are forever changed. Once upon a time I told my mom, "life isn't fair", to which she replied " no it's not". Life was never meant to be fair or easy. For most of us it's an everyday struggle to make it to the ultimate "someday". Someday I'll be rich, someday I'll be happy, someday I'll have it all figured out. "Someday" will never arrive. Instead of wishing and waiting for the unattainable someday we have to embrace where we are and where we have been. All those little bumps in the road, all those things that forever changed us, all those things that made is question our reason for being are all relevant and worthy of thanks, because without those things we would be stagnant. I don't want to have a complacent life. Instead I dream of a life with more speed bumps hurdling me straight into my future. A future filled with surprises and the many wonderful, and not so wonderful things I will have the pleasure to experience. As a young woman at the very start of my life I am choosing to brace every possibility and challenge I will need to face. Coming to terms with it is not easy, for the most part it's terrifying, but I know that in the end it will all be worth every tear, every laugh, every success and every failure.

I challenge you, whoever may read this to take a good hard look at the things you've been through and the things you are currently facing and instead of questioning and wishing choose to embrace every moment.

Xoxo
Rae