I saw my friend tonight who has a daughter that got pregnant and is having a baby within weeks after she turns 20. At least she is out of high school, but it is still awful young and several of her friends already have babies. When I walked in the shop to get my hair cut she was there in tears because she was having trouble with her boyfriend who is also 19. I told her, in my all knowing way (ha ha), that she chose hard and it was going to be hard. I don't say this from a moral standpoint, only a life choice standpoint.
I don't kid myself that I always choose easy and looking at it now, would it be so terrible if I had a 17 year old kid? It is easy to look back and think of all the things I would choose differently, but looking back can be such a disaster...so, no matter what the choices have been there is only one thing to do...look forward; forge ahead and maybe choose easy next time.
Today's quote goes with the post:
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them" Denis Waitley
Maybe the easy choice is to move forward through the hard choices...life is such a circle, isn't it?
I Am Grateful,
HB
Yes, it is a bummer to see people you know take the hard road time and again.....and not in the good way like Mother T is suggesting. Makes life look tough alright.....I am way too lazy to make life any more difficult and dramatic than it already is.
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