You have a unique talent for making me well up with tears, and providing me with such inspiration. I agree, we have to keep living. We have to thank the people that teach us these hard lessons. We have to mourn loss and rebuild. Thank you.
This is why I love reading your posts. You're not afraid to tell us what you really thing, regardless of the reaction of your peers. My parents divorced when I was three, it was the best thing that could have happened. Though I am closer to my dad and often hated growing up in my mom's home most of the time, I never wanted my parents back together. I have siblings, other parents, extended family, friends, none of which I would have had my parents tried to work it out. My dad is currently going through another divorce (and I am cheering him on). After staying in a relationship more than a decade after it turned from good to bad, he is finally standing up for himself. He found someone who loves him, who loves me. For the first time since I was 16, I feel like I have that side of my family back. My dad was also fighiting prostate cancer at the time he decided to leave for good. I truly believe that had he not taken the steps to love himself, we would be burying him rather than celebrating a year cancer-free. I commend you for doing what it took to build a life full of love (and get to the point where you can co-parent with your ex).
Darlin', I believe that deciding to get a divorce (and the inevitable emotional breakdown) was not only the greatest act of love you and your husband could do for one another, it was also the greatest act of love you could give yourself. People (especially emotional, sensitive ones) often spend much more energy making everyone else happy. It is definitely something I struggle with. Today, I know that I am deserving of a life that makes me happy. You are too, you deserve a love that lifts you up and fulfills you and makes you want to do happy dances. Right now, you're the best person to give yourself that love...with the support of me and the rest of the Tribe, of course.
Congrats! I need to read those LIKE RIGHT NOW! I know that a fear of failure (and success) holds me back and has kept me under my earning potential for years. Not exactly fair to myself. I have been planning an Etsy shop (but not actually doing anything about it) for a year. Ridiculous. I need to do it, and I need to rock it. Thank you for the kick in the pants (and an updated reading list). I also recommend Boss of You.
Every word of this is simply beautiful.
This is beautiful and sad. Tragic and amazing all at the same time. It's true, we can have it all, so why are we (me) so afraid of success?
Thank you for this. I'm currently struggling with trying to develop my own definition of success..and realizing that I have been living life on pause because of what everyone else told me it meant to be successful. Sometimes waking up and being responsible for your own happiness is hard work!
This made me tear up as well. Truly beautiful. Thank you!
You have to chase your passions...all of them. I am like you in that I have things that I love (writing, books and crochet being the top thee) which will ALWAYS be a part of my life, but I will probably always have multiple jobs, or wear multiple hats in order to be fulfilled. For years I have fought it, and I am just starting to realize that it is okay.
I think you could find a lot of happiness putting some details into building your brand. Plan out all the little details that make you tick as a photographer. See where it takes you, it is all worth it.
You are the best. I just recently wrote a letter to myself in the past. I think I need to write to a letter to myself now...it may help keep the anxiety monsters at bay. Keep on celebrating what makes you amazing!
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