After scanning Instagram, I came to the realization that most people think of it as an accomplishment when they "make it through" a month, year, 5 years, of something in their life. That something is often when they have a baby, complete the first semester of college, been married x amount of years, and things like that. This made me think of my life, after having Liam for a month, was I glad I just made it through? After being married for a year, did I look back and think, wow we "made it through" the year? To me, this makes everything seem like a task we just have to endure. This made me a little sad and I hope we don't just try to make it through life. This lead me to my next thought. I recently saw on a show that a lady wrote a book and it was about going through life and how we can run into different circumstances that make up our experiences in life. For example, our parents moved to this town next to this person and that person became my friend. Did I choose to be friends with that person, or did it just happen because of my circumstance? I worked at Conservice because I was living in Logan and they hired me. Did I choose to work there, or did it just happen by circumstance?
I think my life is filled with a little of both choices and things that fell in my lap. I reflected on this a bit and hope to choose to not just make it through life. I hope I don't just do things in life because I happen to run into the circumstance. Yes, some things are thrown in our lives just at the right time and we need to jump on them. But, I hope most of the time we have hopes and dreams and make those things happen.
