Turning 30

My 30th birthday is right around the corner and I am so excited! I hear horror stories all the time about how some people spend their 30th birthday in tears because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to accomplish in the first 30 years of their life. Makes me wonder why so much stock and pressure is put into this one number.
I can't say that I am where I want or hoped to be by now, but I am very proud of what I have accomplished!

No, I do not hold a degree of any type, but I am working towards it.

No, I am not pushing the 2010 Jag I marvel at everyday, but I'll get something better in a couple more years.

NO, I do not have my dream home but I can see it on the horizon.

No, I am not the district attorney I aspired to be as a child, I decided to do something different.

I could go on an on about all the things I don't have or haven't accomplished but I'd rather focus on the things I have right here and now.

I have my health.
I have a handsome 7 year old little boy whom I adore.
I have a lovely apartment filled with love.
I have a dependable car with four tires and an a/c that works. (Thank God for that one. Don't know what I would do without that a/C) :-)
I have a job that pays the bills and helps me to afford a comfortable lifestyle.
I have a youthful spirit and a beauty that shines in spite of the dullness that surrounds me.
I have rediscovered my passion in writing.

You see, we spend so much time focusing on what we lack that we fail to focus on all we have. Yeah, I know you've heard that line before, but it's true.

I choose to live life with my eyes wide open, arms stretched wide, and heart fully open to embrace all that each passing year has to offer.

Peace and Blessings
Brighter Future

Are you a follower or a leader?

Follower or Leader

I think there comes a time in any parent's life that they have to sit down and
have that conversation with their child about being a leader and not a follower.
My son runs into the room with a single glove on trying to be like Michael
Jackson. I must admit, he has some of those dance moves down to a science.
He holds his basketball in his hands and swears he's Lebron. He goes hard in
the paint and dunks over whatever smaller objects he finds in his room to tower
over on his little tikes basketball goal.
Is that him being a follower?
At school, on occasion, he may get in trouble for trying and doing things that
he knows are wrong just to be part of the "in crowd". I understand it! It's a
part of growing up. That's the growing pains of a child. We all went through
it.
But I've come to realize in life that sometimes you have to be a follower:
You have to follow the rules
You have to follow directions.
You have to follow someone's lead from time to time.
So I don't mind that my son wants to be like MJ, Lebron or his Dad.
I just pray that he realizes as he gets older that he has to be the Best form of
himself that he can be! Eventually he has to find a space in that little chest,
in that great big heart of his to know that he has to push out greatness that
the world has never seen by just being who he is!
Who's lead will you follow? When the time comes, what kinda leader will you be?