Wisdoms.....
"Everything will work out for the best in the end, you just have to trust that your heart will give your feet the right directions."
-Martha K., great grandmother
"You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
-Carol K., great aunt
"The true test of a woman is not how well she can cook a roast, clean a house or raise a child. It's how she deals with the flaming beef, the crumbling foundation and the scarlet fever."
-Patricia C., grand mother
"Being a mother isn't about genetics or money or even time pal-ling around. It's about getting in there, rolling up your sleeve and never giving up. In short? Being a mom is about being too damned stubborn to admit defeat."
-Jenea L., sister (mother of 5 -beautiful- children)
"One day, you're going to grow up. I have no clue when that's going to be, but do me a favor? Don't take it too seriously."
-Cathy C., beloved step-mother (aka the mom I -should- have had)
When I started to share these, and many other, pearls of wisdom that the women of my family had imparted on me while growing up to someone I know online who is a young woman (18) who never really had the benefit of guidance in her life I realized something. With our modern age of Television Babysitters, Internet Nanny's and Turn-Key Kiddos, we're losing something. Something that has always been vital to our (both male and female) social, emotional, character and mental development. We're losing the small things that our mothers and fathers knew, that their mothers and fathers knew and right on down the ages. We're losing that connection to the wisdom of the ages. Not from lack of trying though. I just don't understand it.
I have to admit, despite my family (excuse the cliche) putting the FUN! back into dysfunctional, in retrospect I have truly been blessed. Now I can't say I'm old, or even that I've reached the age of wisdom, I'm only 25 after all. What I can say though, is that I can lean back in my comfy computer chair and think of every face in my family, male and female and see how they touched my life. I can see how no matter much I railed against them in my youth, without their guidance, both subtle and not so subtle, I would not be who I am without them. I can see each one of their faces and I can truly thank whatever diety(s) may be out there that I had them. Now don't get me wrong, this is not some wishy washy thanking of the Academy. I just wonder, am I the only one that was blessed with such amazing people, warts and all, in my life? Do other people get this chance? Did others get to have just as much wisdom imparted on them? And if so, what other pieces of life truths were given? What am I missing out on? I think I'm getting greedy in my mid-twenties.
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone out there has wisdom. I'm wondering if I'm the only one that grew up with the older generation of my family whispering little things, things that were inconsequential at the time to my young mind, but stuck with me like that silly flea bitten cat that always followed me to and from school.
I've shared some of mine. Can you share some of yours?
-Martha K., great grandmother
"You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
-Carol K., great aunt
"The true test of a woman is not how well she can cook a roast, clean a house or raise a child. It's how she deals with the flaming beef, the crumbling foundation and the scarlet fever."
-Patricia C., grand mother
"Being a mother isn't about genetics or money or even time pal-ling around. It's about getting in there, rolling up your sleeve and never giving up. In short? Being a mom is about being too damned stubborn to admit defeat."
-Jenea L., sister (mother of 5 -beautiful- children)
"One day, you're going to grow up. I have no clue when that's going to be, but do me a favor? Don't take it too seriously."
-Cathy C., beloved step-mother (aka the mom I -should- have had)
When I started to share these, and many other, pearls of wisdom that the women of my family had imparted on me while growing up to someone I know online who is a young woman (18) who never really had the benefit of guidance in her life I realized something. With our modern age of Television Babysitters, Internet Nanny's and Turn-Key Kiddos, we're losing something. Something that has always been vital to our (both male and female) social, emotional, character and mental development. We're losing the small things that our mothers and fathers knew, that their mothers and fathers knew and right on down the ages. We're losing that connection to the wisdom of the ages. Not from lack of trying though. I just don't understand it.
I have to admit, despite my family (excuse the cliche) putting the FUN! back into dysfunctional, in retrospect I have truly been blessed. Now I can't say I'm old, or even that I've reached the age of wisdom, I'm only 25 after all. What I can say though, is that I can lean back in my comfy computer chair and think of every face in my family, male and female and see how they touched my life. I can see how no matter much I railed against them in my youth, without their guidance, both subtle and not so subtle, I would not be who I am without them. I can see each one of their faces and I can truly thank whatever diety(s) may be out there that I had them. Now don't get me wrong, this is not some wishy washy thanking of the Academy. I just wonder, am I the only one that was blessed with such amazing people, warts and all, in my life? Do other people get this chance? Did others get to have just as much wisdom imparted on them? And if so, what other pieces of life truths were given? What am I missing out on? I think I'm getting greedy in my mid-twenties.
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone out there has wisdom. I'm wondering if I'm the only one that grew up with the older generation of my family whispering little things, things that were inconsequential at the time to my young mind, but stuck with me like that silly flea bitten cat that always followed me to and from school.
I've shared some of mine. Can you share some of yours?