Me to Self:  Okay, dadgum it, I just overthought that yesterday.  Not again today… seriously???

Anyone else ever been there?  I do it all the time!  We’re constantly told by those people we know who are not over-thinkers to just stop, let it goooo, relaaaaaax, can’t you hear them??   I often just stare at them thinking not so nice thoughts.  But to them, it’s so simple.  One of my extra weaknesses though is not just overthinking today, it’s overthinking yesterday… why did I say that, why didn’t I do that, I wish I could take that back, what was I thinking.  

As corny and often frustrating as it sounds, where we are right this instant, good or bad, is because of choices we made somewhere along the way.  Some were made when we woke up, some yesterday, and some a decade ago.  Some we made without a thought about how they would affect us later or maybe we didn’t care like I didn’t care when I ate that second pie of pie on Sunday!  I own it.  But some we make with clear destinations in mind like walking down the aisle or choosing a major.  Regardless, each choice is like a turn on a trip, choosing to go right, left, or straight (or to put the fork down).  Some will be the right choice, some will suck, some will cause us to pull over and ask directions, but they are all just blips on the trip!  We can’t undo wrong turns, we can only move forward, but it’s often hard to do when we’re still analyzing and thinking about how to undo the last turn.

I so wish we could learn the secret to celebrating the trip including all its turns and twists.  I so wish we could learn that we are just a version of ourselves today, that we’re not the same girl we were yesterday and the same one we’ll be tomorrow, we’re ever changing. Each day, we make choices that changes that girl or boy tomorrow, and each choice could have often been better and could have just as often been worse.  But we can only make one turn at a time and when we make a wrong one, we need to learn to pull over and enjoy the view, laugh a little, and get back on the road.  We learned a lesson, we made another leg of the trip, and we wrote another chapter in the story.

YOU, my friend, are a wonderful person and a beautiful soul, and I know that because I know Who made you!   Our choices are not us.  Remind yourself again, they are just blips on the trip, but had we not made each one, we may not have made it to the amazing destination just around the next curve! 

We’ve got this, I know we do!

by Tracey, Just a Crazy Girl