Craziness of Life

I just recently remembered about this blog I had started up a year or so enough, and amazingly enough when I came to the blogger website, I still remembered my password. Accomplishment of the day I'd say. Life has been crazy, to say the least. With work, college and all the other little ups and downs of life, I rarely have anytime to just sit back and reflect on what's going on and where I'm heading. Associates Degree, CHECK. Moving on...to what? Still not sure. do I pursue what I want most in life, even if i'm not sure I can afford it? Or do I stay stuck and just continue with the same routine, same thing, day in and day out. The idea of living for the next 30 years or so, getting up every morning to go to the same job, in the same place, in the same city that I have lived in since i was 3, makes me feel a little boxed in. I would love to just quit my job, pack up my belongings, and get on the road. Who cares where I go, as long as I'm going somewhere, anywhere where I can experience something new, something out of the ordinary. But as adults, we have to learn to push aside that desire to drop everything and go, jus tto leave, just to be with ourselves, on our own, away from the craziness of our daily lives. I wish it was easier. I wish that when things get to be too much and we just need to get away, that we could do that. Just take our things, and leave. Not forever, but for a day, maybe a week, maybe a year. I wish it were up to us, and not our careers or our families. Maybe someday I will be able to venture out of the rut, and travel, get out of the city I've been in almost all my life, and see the world. Maybe it soundsl like a cliche, but the truth is, I have been nowhere, I have done nothing, nothing that counts anyways, and that is sad.

For today, the best thing I can do is wake up, get to work, and get ready to take on the day with a smile. That's all anyone can do. No matter whats going on in our lives, no matter the craziness and business of it, living it with a smile helps us, as well as those around us. And not matter what comes our way, one thing I think everyone needs to remember is that no matter what is going on in life, my life or yours, eventually things will change. Nothing will stay the same. When things are going good, they eventually go bad, when things are going bad they eventually get better, its an up and down roller coaster, so one think that we can be confident in, is that we won't be staying down for long. And in the midst of the craziness, in the midst of all the things that we have to do in our daily lives, the responsibilities, the bills, the long hours at work. Lets not forget about ourselves. Take a minutes. Take five. Take an hour. But make some time for YOU. Take a nap, go for a run, listen to some music, reminisce about your childhood, whatever you choose to do in that time, do it for you and no one else... After all, you are stuck with yourself for the rest of your life, no getting rid of you, so keep yourself happy, no matter what it takes.  DON'T FORGET TO SMILE!

-N