28 Feb2014
I tried to be everything to everybody….
I tried to be everything to everybody….
A friend told me that the other day while crying. She was upset the other day and told her daughter that very statement and her daughter said “why who asked you to???”
While my friend felt offended and hurt I thought the daughter was actually right. Sometimes we just try to be the go to person for all our friends and family and it usually does not work out. We ourselves become worn or the people really do not need us to do it!!!
One time when my son was 5 years old he wanted to ride his bike down a hill and I said NO. My father chimed in and said let him go because you cannot protect him from life. I listened and my son went flying down the street and fell on glass and got cut. I was furious but the moral of the story is I could not protect him from getting hurt in a normal situation.
It is good to be there for those you love but you cannot be everything to everybody …..It is just too tiring!!!
This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare