I'm celebrating my parents 26 years of marriage today! Yaaay for them!! What a journey-right!?
It's so hard to digest in todays society, with marriage taken so lightly and divorce being dealt out like a casual game of cards.
I'm speaking from a woman's perspective when I say that many of us are scared of marriage, yet many of us yearn for it.
I watch television shows like Basketball Wives, Brandy and Ray J, The Real Housewives of Atlanta and all of these shows are predominently black shows. However, what really ties them together is the tramatically negative display of marriage they portray and the women that are not married are in such a lonely and desperate state, pathetically searching for true love. Can someone say, we miss the Cosby Show! (SMH)
The fact that match.com is popular is a headturner for me by itself. When we take the REAL out of 'real love' by matchmaking through electronic computer devices, something should tell you we've made a wrong turn somewhere.
Today I'm celebrating real love.
They met in grade school and got together in highschool. Had two girls, worked hard, built there lives together and set the best example they could. Like no one on earth, they're not perfect but they've managed to stay happily married for 26 years.
Call it traditional, but I think if we returned to this "old school" way of building relationships, we would collectively be in a better state!
As I sit here drinking my morning coffee, my creative mind is bothered at the moment.
My nails are too long and I cant type as fast-so some thoughts are left out. I drank too much lastnight! Im ready for a new look and I want "washboard" abs. Should I just get a new car and go back to paying a monthly note? I want to open a youth center RIGHT NOW! I should have bought those lace leggings yesterday, even though I didnt have time to try them on. I wonder how Snoops mansion party went lastnight?? I was invited but I didn't want to drive that far. I want a new Swaravoski ring. Are they still going to have the "Paris Box" at Claires that I want-it was made for my bookcase. Should I buy the new Michael Kors rose gold watch? Is it better to buy a laptop or an ipad?I need to find curtains that are fabulous! How come NO ONE sells fabulous, vintage, french, black and creme curtains?! I HAVE to find who I'm looking for. The "Great American Apparel Diet" sounds so interesting to me-but would I have the nerve?
Im thinking about all these things yet, Im not crazy, thats just how us women do.
NEW year, NEW mind set, NEW swag, NEW sacrifice, NEW beginnings, NEW love, NEW strengths, NEW chances-What An Amazing Gift To Get A NEW Start!
Rather than thinking will I accomplish all of my goals in 2011, I must make it happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before, BUT I need HELP making it happen! <-------- Or is that the problem? Am I looking for help, when I should be doing everything myself?
Can someone recommend some books on organization and/or problem solutions?
I'll admit, when something starts getting too difficult, SOMETIMES I get frustrated and move on to the next thing. Even if I put it down for a moment and then pick it back up, I do not want to to do that anymore. Call me THE FINISHER! I need completion in my life!
Am I the only one that feels overloaded? I have personal goals, then I have business goals, then I have family goals, then I have financial goals-not in that order either. I think about them all-often! I wonder what life would be like without thinking about all these things at the same time. I also think what life would be like when I reach my goals and live them. Will I do a youtube video like beyonce crying telling everybody, I have it all, Im so rich,Im living my dreams, blah, blah, blah? What happens when we reach our goals?? Will we have a new set of goals to reach next? Is life about a chase that never surrenders? Are we racing to a finish line that will never appear?
