Crystal Ball

Good morning, my Lovelies! Happy Friday and hallelujah! The weekend is here! How’s everyone? I hope that your week has been kind to you and that you are going into the weekend with a positive and happy outlook. If not, I hope your favorite vice helps you cope and you come out the other side with renewed energy for the week ahead.

I’ve spent some time this week reflecting on different areas of my life, things that have happened to me through the years, things I’ve allowed to happen to me through the years. There’s been good, there’s been bad (I mean…everyone has those times, right?) Maybe it’s the fact that we are preparing for my oldest to graduate high school, but the reminiscing and evaluating have reached peak levels.

I’ve thought about things as simple as playing basketball in my backyard, chasing our dogs through the neighborhood, and riding bikes for hours on end. I’ve thought about the nights at the skating rink, the nights I spent driving a continual loop, hour after hour, through my hometown, cruising with my friends. I’ve thought about my freshman year of college and all of the firsts I had, all the fun I had, and realizing that although I was an adult, I wasn’t truly ready at that point for all that college entailed.

I’ve thought about that first “real” job and where that led - dating, marriage, divorce. Going back to college with a renewed spirit and determination. Then, of course, meeting, falling in love with, and moving away with my husband. And, without a doubt, I’ve been very nostalgic about my pregnancies and the births of my babies.

Everyone tells you to slow down, to cherish the time you have because it flies by so quickly. And even though you know time moves quickly and you take heed of their cautionary advice, until you experience it yourself, you just don’t know. You just cannot possibly realize how incredibly fast it goes by.

In my musings I realized something else – I’ve spent a large majority of my life looking ahead, trying to see what was coming up next (or coming at me next). I find that I rarely just stopped and enjoyed where I was at in life. Now it seems like so many opportunities were not fully taken advantage of simply because I was too busy looking to the future.

So, what’s my point in telling you all of this? Hell if I know, but now you know where my head has been at this week.

My Lovelies…stop. Look around you. Soak it in. Breathe.

Until next time, and as always,

Much love and affection, from me to you!

Shelly (a/k/a Dawn Love)

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