Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

The older I get, the more I see how simple life really is.

Yes, it can be complicated, but we really do it to ourselves.

Recently I have been doing some new learning for my work. As part of it, I have been hearing different situations and hearing different people’s stories. Some have elaborate, dramatic stories. Sometimes the stories are about family or friends. Sometimes it’s about work, school or church. Sometimes people just are swirling with problems that seem unsolvable. But when it comes down to it, most of the problems and situations are changeable with a few shifts of thoughts and change of perspectives; a little bit of love and forgiveness and a willingness to let some control go and drop the drama.

It doesn’t really take much. It’s actually pretty simple.

“Nobody is more full of false hope than a Mom who places items on the stairs for her family members to carry up” 

I thought this was too funny.

I thought it was funny because as I posted it, there were items on the stairs that got stepped over.

I mean, you are making the effort to “step over” things. Can you not just take them up?

I thought the quote was so funny that I sent it to everyone on our family group chat.

Crickets.

Then a small little LOL from Zandra.

I’m sure that this is something else that other mothers can relate too: what gets responded to in group chats. It drives me crazy how this generation will respond to things when it is convenient to them. Otherwise – crickets. I even sent a message to the group chat a few weeks ago about something that was really important to me and only Rob responded.  I can only imagine if they sent stuff to me and I never bothered to respond…. (and is it only me or is it this stage of life where they communicate only when something is needed??)

Just keeping it real on the blog.