First off, I suppose I should apologize for my absence. Sorry, I'm lazy. lol. Secondly, I want to wish anyone that reads this a very happy valentines day. but neither of those are what this post is about.
This post is about my life.
Those of you that know me personally, may have noticed (or maybe you didn't- I don't really know) that I've been in kind of a funk lately. I've been pretty restless with my life and the way it's been working. My house was a dump. My job, while mostly enjoyable, was sucking the life out of me. My calling (which I normally love) had even begun to go stale for me. The result was (and still is) me being short and contrary, Ryan and I started to argue more, I started to function less and less. Usually when I feel like this I know I have to make a change, and that change usually means some kind of hair cut.
But not this time.
In Young Women's on Sunday, we were teaching the lesson "Finding Joy in Life Now" and we started by discussing what the difference is between Fun, Satisfaction, Happiness, and Joy. How we are responsible for our OWN happiness in this life, and how we don't have to wait. *I* don't have to wait for Ryan to graduate to be happy, *I* don't have to wait for us to have a baby to feel like my life has a substance. *I* don't have to work at a job that makes me feel useless. *I* don't have to do that.
My mother use to tell my sister and I "Bloom where you're planted" and she was right. I have to find happiness where I am, in the situation I'm in. but at the same time, if there are things in my situation I don't like, I can change them. That's my choice.
So. I've talked to Ryan, and we've decided. at least for now, We aren't keeping anything in the house we don't love. We're getting rid of almost everything. Furniture, Crap, Clothes, Everything. We are going to go through it a bit at a time and decide what to keep, and what to chuck. :) And we won't replace any of it until we've found something we love and we agree on.
I'm so incredibly excited about this. I think I could bust. I think.... I might be happy. :)
I know this post kind of rambles, but I don't care. I hope you understood it, not that that's important, because I did. :)
I don't think this post is kind of rambles at all. I think it is a beautiful post that reminds all of us that we are responsible for our own joy and we need to not sit and wait but get up and make the changes needed to help us find that joy. Yes, we have noticed you were in a funk but knew you needed the time to figure things out. That is why I wait in the sidelines and keep you laughing. I think the purging thing is a great idea. I do it twice a year and I always feel so much clearer in my mind and life when I don't have as much crap cluttering my thoughts. I wish you luck!
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