I Remembered What My Mom Said...

I know, I know… I haven’t been great at keeping up with this blog. Life has gotten in the way. Well in all honesty my hands have been full. It’s been a year since I last posted something. I even had a list of topics I wanted to write about. I might post them later.

You see a few months after my last post I found out I was pregnant. Also, my last post was during my second to last semester at college. So in under a year I crammed in finishing school, moving and having babies.

No, that wasn’t a typo. Four months ago my husband and I were given two babies, twins, a boy and a girl. They came a little too early and that provided its own challenges, but I won’t go into, at least right now.

They are home and doing fantastic!

What I want write about is a funny little experience I had not long after our twins were born.

Since our babies came a little too early they had to spend some time in the hospital to get ready to face the world. And due to that fact we did a lot of commuting for a few weeks from home to the hospital.

It was on one of these commuting trips that this event I am getting to occurred.

My husband and I were driving back home after spending some time in the hospital with our children were driving alongside a school bus when I looked up and saw a boy, no older than twelve scowling at me while he was flipping me off.

I knew the boy was looking for a reaction and that he was trying to appear tough, like all boys try to do. I thought about how to respond when I remembered my mom telling me years ago, “When someone flips you off on the road or is rude give  them the I love you sign or the peace sign.”

So that’s what I did!

I gave the boy a smile and held up the “I love you” sign and held it there while the boy held his scowl and kept up his middle finger for several long moments. It was like a silent competition.

I won.

The boy put down his hand and a bashful smile came over his face ad he turned back around. His plan was thwarted.

It made me smile how the moment turned out.

I could have gotten mad at the boy flipping me off and complain about, “the children of today.” But I tried something different and fought fire with a little bit of kindness.

New Start Each Day!

I once gave an advice to someone who was worried about some things in their life, "You know the thing about our pasts is that is not who we are now."
With this new year upon us now I am thinking a lot about the future and some on the past, what I didn't' in the past year, and years previous. I wasn't who I was when 2011 start and hopefully when 2012 ends I won't be that same person.
During my Junior year in high school I had read this very interest book, Siddhartha. The book goes through choices one man makes with his life. Well, while reading this book for my English class the discussion came up about how choices change us, making us different people each day. When we wake up in the morning we weren't the same person yesterday because we have new experiences, made more choices, have more memories.
Well, with New Year, I and everyone else, we have the oppurtunity to become even different than last year, even more better. The thing is when we enter into the desire to better ourselves we have let go of the past and move forward.
Quoting Rafiki from the Lion King, "Yes the past can hurt, but the way I see you can run from it or learn from it!"
Often when we try to change the past likes to sneak up on us and grab us by the ankles, for whatever reason. It's different for all of us. But this morning I watched a video that explains my thoughts in a unique way. This video got me thinking about this subject. It was a good way to start out the day!