Passion?
How much passion should one expect in his or her life?
I saw Eclipse from the Twilight Saga this week and was telling my friend Sarah, that it seems dreamy to be consumed by love, as Bella and Edward are, but not very realistic. I am in love with my husband, but I have a job and kids that come before being crazy in love. Sarah says that Twilight is giving young girls the wrong idea about love, that in the real world, love is not like what is portrayed in movies. Who’s wrong, Sarah or the world?
Similarly, how passionate should one hope to be about their job? I like my job, but I don’t get up every morning hankering to get to it. It has awesome moments, when I close a big deal or make an impact, but there are many things I would rather be doing than working. I know people who would do their job for free.
To answer my own question, I think one cannot expect vampire strength love everyday (excuse the analogy). The reality is that you can be in love with your partner, but not be able to focus on them all the time. But, I do think we should push ourselves to find our passion and make it a career whenever possible. You spend so much of your day working (if you have a job) so it would be great to love it so much you would do it for free.
How much passion do you have in you life? Is it enough?
New Support Group
I am starting a new support group called, “I am a good mother with a full time job and doing the best I can”.
There will be no support group meetings because we have no time, we will not meet in person, because we never get to leave our houses/offices. Instead we will sit in our offices drinking a glass of wine (or stronger) reminding ourselves that we can only do what we can do and it’s ok that we don’t live and breathe our children 24 hours a day.
We will understand that full time moms who make stupid comments like, “Do you think your son is having a hard time because you travel so much?” are simply jealous because they know we have fulfilling careers or that they are too dumb to realize how simplistic their lives are. We will be able to share our work accomplishments with women who get it and don’t think we’re bragging or suggesting we’re more important.
We will celebrate our friends, who are stay at home moms, who help with our kids. We cherish these women who provide balance to our crazy lives.
Finally, we will try to keep ourselves from working until midnight to make up for the fact that we are going to try and watch the occasional t-ball practice or sneak in a quick run, to compete with the co-worker who is single, childless and doesn’t have wonderful friends to give them balance!
Wanna Join?
Getting Started
After much deliberation, procrastination and pushing from friends, I have decided to subject the world (or whoever reads this) to my thoughts. These thoughts can be insightful, inappropriate, funny, ridiculous, heartfelt or … who knows. I will be blogging to express myself with the secret (or not so secret now) hope that my thoughts will resonate with someone else – tell me if that is ever you!
As I am building this site, so many ideas come to mind that I want to post. In the beginning, I will be a child with a new toy, I will likely blog multiple times per day while I get it all out and then find a little balance…
Finally, thank you to K for all the help!
Enjoy and please comment!
Pay It Forward
Slightly Off-Balance 