You Might Want to Read This

A Personal Essay

I haven’t written on here in a while. Honestly, I just haven’t found the time. Probably more honestly, I haven’t felt the energy. After all, I am a mom of three (8, 2, 1). I am busy. And they are quite the handful, but I love the life we have built. However, that doesn’t change the fact that it is a lot. It is challenging. Most days, as of late, I wake up frustrated, and that frustration simmers all day. I haven’t liked myself much because of it. But it has brought me back here, at least for the moment. I won’t get into all that right now. I’m not ready, but I do have loads to write about. But, I do have some thoughts I wanted to share now so you might want to read this.

Not everyone will get this, but it takes courage to be yourself — your whole self — especially when you have spent most of your life trying to be the person everyone else wanted you to be — or the person YOU thought everyone else needed. Maybe a combination of both. But, there you are, that beautiful, neglected, often just kind of forgotten thing.

Here it is, though. Someone needs that you — the one you thought wasn’t good enough. Because that you is where you access your soul — emanating love, kindness, creativity, and warm and bright energy. It will echo and maybe awaken that soul deep down in someone else that needs it so badly. I want that for me. I want…