As I have just finished another semester, I ponder about my life goals, projects, and aspirations for the years to come. I guess I can complain that I haven't done anything in my life, but who wants to hear that? This song encapsulates what I'm thinking.
What do you think? Is everything going well in your life or would you like to change some things? Drop me a line and let me know, maybe we can give each other some encouragement.
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I definitely feel like you. My main aspiration was always to have a family and be a stay at home mother. So there aren't any career or other goals I have failed to achieve. But I don't feel like I've actually done anything worthwhile. Since I've only achieved half my goal (I work FT, not a stay at home mom), I feel like I've failed in that. Despite all the working mothers who say you're still 100% as much the mother you would be if you stayed home, I say "BS". There is no way you can leave your child in an institution or in someone else's care for 9-10 hours EVERY DAY and still be a 100% mother.
Now, to switch gears. I read The Poisonwood Bible, which takes place in the 1960s. Those people live every minute of the day oriented to survival. Simplifying it a bit, every task is either finding food or preparing food. They don't get degrees. They don't campaign politically. They don't do any of the things Americans think we have to do to be successful or accomplished. Yet in terms of salvation, their lives are equal to the most accomplished American's. They can receive salvation based on what they did here. So that says to me that all these accomplishments we lust after may be missing the big picture.
I think the absolute most important thing may be how we treat each other. But I don't do any of that either. I barely say hi to my neighbors. I'm always "too tired" to serve, or it's "too hard" with 3 kids. Hence why I feel that I don't do anything of worth.
Man, now I feel like a loser, like I'm the only person that reads you who feels this way!!
no worries, katie. it sucks to be me, too. not only do i not have a fam and kids at this point, i can't find a job. i feel completely useless to everyone around me.
Thanks Amy ;-D
I am grateful for what I do have. I try not to be too ungrateful most of the time :-)
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