(Excerpt chap. 4)
With one arm holding the phone, I rushed around the kitchen
wiping off counters, stacking dishes in the dishwasher, and browning meat for
dinner. I was talking with my mom about financial woes, injuries, the deadline
for this book, doctor visits, and new school clothes, when she pointed out to
me, “When you get to be my age, you look back on your life and realize that so
much of what you thought was a big deal, didn’t really matter at all.”
The wisest people in my life are always telling me to take
pictures, write down the funny things your kids say, spend more time with your
kids, go on dates, have more sex, or take a vacation. No one ever tells me to
have a cleaner house, worry more about finances, or buy the kids more new
clothes because they know in the end those things are just not a big deal and
that they are not what create happily ever
afters.
I need to imprint this somewhere in my brain for reference every day.
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