We
take many journeys in our lifetime. I think the journey from your parents’
household to running your own ranks in the top 10 for sure. We live through
differing stages in our lives without ever thinking twice about it. We talk
with our friends and hold some of those friends more intimate than others. For
me, getting through everyday life was interesting to say the least. I spent
most of my time trying to figure out a good painless way to check out because I
hated the school I was in, couldn’t stand my parents and my moms’ friends were
all losers who lived in an altered worldly sense of reality. Obviously that
didn’t work, you’re reading this now.
My
road trip through life has seen some interesting things but more importantly; I’ve
been able to see parenthood. The time in your life when you sacrifice every
single thing for this little person that looks up at you with big round eyes
and calls you mom or dad brings a journey that takes you through more perils
and triumphs than you ever thought existed. Were we this emotional, irrational,
immature at a young age? I’m sure we were, but we were also more mature; we had
to be. Most of us were left to figure things out ourselves due to the fact that
our parents worked. We did what we were told (for the most part) and had it
done before they got home and that was that. Somehow our turn as parents seems
vastly different than our own parents. Our journeys seem so much more
outrageous you really start to wonder if the hospital sent you home with the
wrong kid. There’s no way something born from me could act that way, think that
way, just BE that way. The journey of parenthood, don’t we all just love it?
The
next journey is the one we take with our friendships and acquaintances. You’ve
seen me write about friendships and what they really mean and the actual number
of people you can call a true friend, did you agree? We meet a lot of people
throughout our lives, some we call friends and some are on that drive by tip;
we call those acquaintances. A lot of people don’t realize that the people you
know actually take you on a different journey on a constant basis, sometimes
good, sometimes not so good. Each person that comes into your life seems like a
new journey for you to take and learn something. As a mom, I’ve learned a lot
from watching the people that have come into and out of my son’s life. Some of
his choices of friends I’ve liked, some of his choices of friends had me
wanting to meet the parent and slap the stupid out of them for putting such a
product on this planet. Have you ever found yourself thinking things are déjà vu
when it comes to your kids’ friends? I have all the time. They’ve always seemed
to need something and always wanted a ride. I’ve often thought for kids coming
from two parent homes, they’re a lot needier than my single parent son. The
journey of the teen years ROUND 2. Funny, I didn’t enjoy round two as much as I
enjoyed round one.
I’d
like to think I’ve cultivated a close network of friends that I don’t mind
sharing things with. You all know I’ll put anything on Facebook, but there are
things that I only share with a certain few. I enjoy watching the journeys my
friends are taking. I’ve seen religious journeys, food journeys, self evolution
journeys and a lot more. The self evolution journeys are the most fun to watch,
don’t get me wrong; anytime someone discovers something about themselves it’s a
good thing. I just find it funny that it took someone all these years to see
what most people saw way back when. I guess as long as you figure it out
sometime it’s a good thing. I don’t trust easily and I for sure don’t trust a
lot of people; so if you’re one that I’ve been writing to personally that shows
you are truly appreciated.
All
of these things are ways to prepare us for some of the toughest things we may
have to face in life. This is when you find out if you’ve cultivated the right
mix of friends to share your most intimate thoughts, good or bad. Think about
this: for some reason, everyone loves to hear bad news…about someone else. Don’t
deny it; you all have someone or several someone (s) that you hardly hear from;
write something public about something that isn’t good and presto!!!! You have
everyone trying to find out what’s going on, and the need to know is what????
All of a sudden they like everything you put up or texting hoping you answer. I
call that trolling, the ones that never really say anything; just go on your
page to see what’s being said, waiting to see something bad so they can pipe in
and ask what, who, how. Those are the ones I like to say “hey, if you were
actually paying attention, you wouldn’t have to ask all these questions” or “hey,
I haven’t heard from you in how long? Now you want to know what’s going on….ummm
no” That’s the equivalent of a person dying and all these people that never
kept in touch showing up saying all these nice things.
So
this is where all of this finds me; on another journey. This is a journey that
will be long, but ultimately will be my last journey. I’m ok with that because
there’s still a hell of a lot of smaller journeys I can take along the way.
There’s a small circle of friends that I have allowed to hop on this crazy
journey with me, I promise to take you on a crazy ride and keep it funny. This
does not mean I want the obligatory “I’m sorry” posts coming in, hell get over
yourself! I don’t want the post saying we need to get together, I’ve lived in
the burbs my whole life and we haven’t really gotten together so let’s just
keep things the way they are. I’m not a prayer warrior by any means, but I have
one in my corner, guess I’m lucky like that. To the fantastic seven, sit back
and relax; to those that don’t admit to reading everything I write, you sit
back and enjoy as well. I’m going to Carla up and take you all on the ultimate
journey!~ Just my two cents
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