(Seriously, you can't take life too seriously - photo was taken April
2016, private rooftop hot tub, penthouse, Holland Hotel, Alpine, TX)
There will be days when you ask yourself, “What’s the point?”
It feels like parental blasphemy saying this out loud to my children and grandchildren. Parents are supposed to be the pillars of strength for their children and examples of how all adversity in life can be overcome.
It feels like parental blasphemy saying this out loud to my children and grandchildren. Parents are supposed to be the pillars of strength for their children and examples of how all adversity in life can be overcome.
On the other hand, if we never tell our
children there will be days when they feel like total failures, and we know
that because we too have had those days, they may feel alone in their failure,
and not see that everyone has those days, and they may not see the opportunity
to realize the point of their lives.
There are many days when I feel like the
hamster in the wheel, running nowhere, with no foreseeable finish line in
sight. And then I think of the fortune I
already hold in my grasp – my beloved companion, my treasured family, my
friends/my anchors, health and the capacity to support myself, a huge laugh that
makes every darkness disappear, a touching moment that reminds me how lovely it
feels to feel, memories more valuable than gold. And it is in those moments I
see “the point”, and I feel ashamed, and I forgive myself, and I am thankful
that my life has such an amazing, amazing point.
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