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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
If at any point in my life, up until approximately three and a half years ago, you had predicted that I would be a stay at home mother of two, happily married to an old fashioned carpenter, renovating a historic home in a small Texas town, reviewing products, going on play dates and clipping coupons...I would of thought you had completely lost your mind. Or had maybe ran across my evil identical twin prior to our first introduction. This stereotypical, gender specific, "boring", constrictive life was not only not for me, it was a life I had never even considered considering as an option. I would spend my days munching on buttery pastries and chainsmoking in tiny French cafés while working on my advanced degrees on art theory, never to marry or have children or do anything else that might chain me down or force a care taking, female specific identity on me. After all, I was such a free spirit. Or arrogant and small minded, depending on who you asked.
Turns out, the life I was truly meant for was waiting for me just around the corner and there's no more, no any less freedom in this life than in any other I've lived. I'm just as free to be me and just as constricted by the world as we all are no matter where we end up. What I have in this life, as opposed to the one I had before, is an abundance of love and caring. I also have a freedoms I never had at any other point on my life, the freedom to be sweet, to take care of those I love, to be treated as special without fear of being labeled in any negative way since the people in my life don't see these roles as free reign to judge me by. The me of ten years ago would of been horrified by the life I lead now but the me of today is so damn grateful for getting knocked up and having a mind that was open enough to try a different way because experience has taught me that life has a way sometimes of knowing better than you do, what's right for you. I wouldn't trade my children or my husband or even the piles of bills and crumbling porches for any buttery pastries and French museums in the world.
Turns out, the life I was truly meant for was waiting for me just around the corner and there's no more, no any less freedom in this life than in any other I've lived. I'm just as free to be me and just as constricted by the world as we all are no matter where we end up. What I have in this life, as opposed to the one I had before, is an abundance of love and caring. I also have a freedoms I never had at any other point on my life, the freedom to be sweet, to take care of those I love, to be treated as special without fear of being labeled in any negative way since the people in my life don't see these roles as free reign to judge me by. The me of ten years ago would of been horrified by the life I lead now but the me of today is so damn grateful for getting knocked up and having a mind that was open enough to try a different way because experience has taught me that life has a way sometimes of knowing better than you do, what's right for you. I wouldn't trade my children or my husband or even the piles of bills and crumbling porches for any buttery pastries and French museums in the world.
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