Perspective

Hi friends! I’ve been going at full speed all day so I apologize if this post is a bit harder to read. My brain is officially leaving the station. 🙂 I had a realization the other day that led to a thought-provoking conversation with my husband and I think everyone can benefit from it. At the end of the day, all of the twists and turns and variations of our conversation came down to perspective in one way or another.

I woke up like this.

While this is an idealistic fantasy, do you really want to “wake up like this”. Personally, I want people to know about the blood, sweat and tears that got me to where I am today. I don’t want to downplay a second of it because I worked my ass off. There seems to be this social mindset that by not trying very hard but still doing well is some impressive thing. Why? I remember that from school. “Oh, I barely tried on that test and got an A.” Ok… Why do we want to pretend like we did nothing for all of the great things in our life?

I didn’t wake up like this. I didn’t get a body like this because I’m lucky. I’m not able to do the things I do because I’m just built for it. That’s crap and the only reason you’re telling yourself that, is to make yourself feel better. Don’t you dare downplay my commitment and hard work to make yourself feel better for not trying hard. I’m not here because I got lucky. I’m here because I put in the time day-in and day-out. You bet your ass that’s the message my daughter will get growing up. No silver spoons in this house. That’s not how I was raised and it doesn’t do anybody any good. Ok, rant over. 🙂 I suppose I didn’t quite realize how strongly I felt about this topic until now. Enjoy. I’d love your feedback and thoughts (even/especially if you disagree)!

Have a lovely day!
XO Elizabeth