You know what sucks? When you're feeling good and someone has to come along and try to make you feel bad. It's like their only goal in life is to burst your balloon, to squash you like a bug, to make all the happy turn sad. Don't know why that is - maybe they're just having a bad day. Maybe they're angry that you're happy and they aren't. Maybe, they're just big fat jerks. Who knows?
You know what doesn't suck? Having friends that will pick you up when you're down. Girlfriends who will stick up for you and stand by your side and tell you everything is going to be okay. They don't have to do it. They could just pretend they didn't see anything and go on about their lives. But, they grab you by the armpits, pick you up after you've just been knocked down, and they brush you off and tell you not to worry.
I'm beginning to learn that people can only make you feel a certain way if you let them. So, I'm making a vow to myself to stop feeling guilty for things that I have no control over. I'll no longer feel bad for people who treat me badly. And I'm going to learn to listen to my friends and believe that everything is going to be okay.
About Me
- Liz Consavage Vilato
- Keeping yourself together when you're a mother is not easy. Being a mom is one of the best jobs and one of the worst. It's hard but fulfilling. It can be fun and it can be a chore. If you can laugh about your mistakes, they won't be so hard to handle and I laugh at myself all the time. I'm a city girl who moved to New York's mid-Hudson Valley over a decade ago. I'm the mom of two school-age girls who sometimes forget how cool I am. I'm a Christian. I'm a Girl Scout leader. I have two sisters - one older and one younger. I prefer tea to coffee and beer to wine. I'm a card-carrying member of the PTA, a single mom, full-time employee and freelance writer (not necessarily in that order).
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