20-5-2008 - Life

My mood while writing this blog: Thankful

It's really amazing how life works. Yesterday I was really feeling down.. I was thinking that my life wasn't that great and I had it bad... I needed to go pick up my medication for my migraines at walgreens and i didnt feel like it but i went anyways.. as I was sitting there an old lady about 50 years old sat next to me and started talking to me .... She told me that she had a set of 9 month old twins and a 5 year old.. at first I looked at her crazy but then she told me they aren't hers, they are her daughters... that she was taking care of them because her daughter had got killed. Her boyfriend took her truck one night and got drunk at the local bar, she called him to get the truck and he told her to come get it...she went to the bar to get it from him and as she went to grab the keys he slapped her hand and then he took off running across the street and when she ran after him a police car swerved to miss her boyfriend and ended up hitting her and killing her instantly. I sat there thinking I was so selfish for thinking that I had life so hard... I talk to the lady and she told me how that if she didn't have those children she wouldn't have made it through the loss of her daughter... and I let her know I felt the same way about my son and the stuff I went through with my son's father... We talked about how much children were a blessing and how grateful we are... After, I got my medicine I said bye to her and as I drove home I started crying ... I realized that God has a way of letting you see how thankful you should be for your current situation...God let me see that no matter how bad I think that I have it... Someone else in this world has it worse than me... That woman was smiling... She was happy... She was thankful for life... and If she can be that way then so should I... and for the rest of that night I was fine... The Moral Of The Story -- NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT, SOMEONE ELSE HAS IT WORSE THAN YOU.. SO STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF AND GET YOURSELF TOGETHER AND MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT YOU HAVE.