(another excerpt from chap. 3)
I can’t count the numerous times I have deceived myself by
saying or thinking, “I have given up everything for my spouse and children.”
One particularly pathetic day, as I was moping over the hefty sacrifices I had
made to have a family, I had an epiphany. In a life changing moment, I realized
I didn’t give up everything; I simply made the choice to let one dream go in
pursuit of a better dream, a dream I wanted more. That dream was my family. I
realized that if I had not had my children, I would have been lonely and
longing for children. If I had pursued a master’s degree or my dream career, I
would be in major debt, missing my unborn children. I realized that day that I
was definitely on the greener side of the mountain. We can’t possibly chase
every exciting pathway we find. We have to choose, and I’m guessing that, like
me, you chose to pursue the dream of happily ever after. So instead of dwelling on our old and still unfulfilled
dreams of sanity, exciting careers, freedom, travel, and so forth, we should
work on making our current dream, the dream we chose, sensational.
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