This will be an attempt to write more positive thoughts than I have lately. Think more positive thoughts.
I admit, I spend far too much time being negative in the last few years. It might be understandable, my situation in the world hasn't been great. I've had to face that most of my life is behind me and often feel like I failed at who I meant to be and the things I had hoped to accomplish in my lifetime.
When I want to think positively, my first thought is always of my grandchildren. I think they are all amazing creatures. The beauty I see in them leaves me just breathless sometimes. My heart leaps and melts when I hear their voices. One Christmas a few years ago I was deathly ill with the flu and confined to bed. The family still gathered at my house for dinner and throughout the day I would wake for brief periods and hear their voices and laughter filling our home and I would feel my heart lift each time, just exploding with joy that they were mine and all together.
I have a very limited social circle. My family is my world. The last close friend I had outside of family was Jenny. I loved her, love her still, but made myself step out of her life because it so negatively impacted mine. I miss her but after i broke away from her i had to admit that i lived in a lot less stress from day to day. Then we moved a couple of times and I never even got to know neighbors again. Not like when we lived near Jen and Natalie.
My family is my world. Far from perfect but each just beautiful in their own ways.
Jeremy is the closest to me. I spend more time one on one with him than anyone. Yes, we argue a lot, agree on almost nothing and he doesnt get along with my daughters. But he has always been There for me. Devoted and faithful no matter what. We haven't lived as a couple for years and the grandchildren are a huge part of why we are still together at all, but it is also because there is something just amazing to me about who he is. I cant imagine any other man who would have stayed through the things he has with me. He will work and trust me to take care of all of us with his earnings and my disability, meaning he has financially supported this family no matter how he has been treated by us. I will be the first to say that he hasn't been treated well at all for most of the 15 years we have been together.
I admit, I spend far too much time being negative in the last few years. It might be understandable, my situation in the world hasn't been great. I've had to face that most of my life is behind me and often feel like I failed at who I meant to be and the things I had hoped to accomplish in my lifetime.
When I want to think positively, my first thought is always of my grandchildren. I think they are all amazing creatures. The beauty I see in them leaves me just breathless sometimes. My heart leaps and melts when I hear their voices. One Christmas a few years ago I was deathly ill with the flu and confined to bed. The family still gathered at my house for dinner and throughout the day I would wake for brief periods and hear their voices and laughter filling our home and I would feel my heart lift each time, just exploding with joy that they were mine and all together.
I have a very limited social circle. My family is my world. The last close friend I had outside of family was Jenny. I loved her, love her still, but made myself step out of her life because it so negatively impacted mine. I miss her but after i broke away from her i had to admit that i lived in a lot less stress from day to day. Then we moved a couple of times and I never even got to know neighbors again. Not like when we lived near Jen and Natalie.
My family is my world. Far from perfect but each just beautiful in their own ways.
Jeremy is the closest to me. I spend more time one on one with him than anyone. Yes, we argue a lot, agree on almost nothing and he doesnt get along with my daughters. But he has always been There for me. Devoted and faithful no matter what. We haven't lived as a couple for years and the grandchildren are a huge part of why we are still together at all, but it is also because there is something just amazing to me about who he is. I cant imagine any other man who would have stayed through the things he has with me. He will work and trust me to take care of all of us with his earnings and my disability, meaning he has financially supported this family no matter how he has been treated by us. I will be the first to say that he hasn't been treated well at all for most of the 15 years we have been together.
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