"Upsetting the "normal" while creating the beautiful." Annette Kruschek |
Dear younger me,
If I could tell you that twenty five years from now you would have six children and be married to the love of your life would you believe me? As you lay out your outfit to go on your first date with this man you are filled with excitement and wonder. You want the date to be great, but if you realized that this would be the beginning of a journey that would test your true strength and grit in life would you still do it? If I told you that you would become a teacher only to give up your dream job to stay home with your kids, would you still say yes to this date? If I said that you would put off trips, weekends away with friends, and shop only second hand, would you still open the door to his knock? If you knew that you would step boldly out in front of people and allow your life to be viewed as an open book and be okay with judgement, would you sit down with him at dinner? If I told you that you would enjoy going to church and look forward to opening up the bible would you say yes to another date with him? I'm here to tell you dear one that you said YES to it all! You allowed yourself to walk down a path that is more narrow and bumpy that you envisioned 25 years ago. You said yes to a first of many dates with now your husband and best friend. You chose love over comfort. You chose risk over playing it safe. You gave up things only to have MUCH MORE given back to you. You did it! You stayed in the game even when things weren't fair, even when the hurt and pain felt as if it would never go away you kept pulling yourself up and dusting yourself off. Dear younger me, I am so proud of you for saying yes to this date 25 years ago. I NEVER would have believed that this life you described would be mine. ALL the loudness, messiness, painful, frightful, and FAITHFUL...ALL of it is mine. All because I said yes to a dinner at a small Chinese restaurant 25 years ago on September 18th in 1991. You, my younger me need to know that you will be the happiest you have EVER been right here, right NOW.
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