Jen Sincero writes about waking up "crying tears of giddy disbelief that you get to be you."
My joy isn't simply that I finally know how that feels, but that so many in my circle of friends & pleasant acquaintances & practically strangers, young & old, seem to, too. That's amazing! Is there something in the water? Gotta wonder.
When John was first introduced to my little hometown, he marveled at the number of apparently stable, downright happy relationships he kept seeing around us. In fact, he sort of blew them off - figured they were for show, that smiling faces concealed seething reality. Probably took him a good ten years to finally accept that what he saw was at least a pretty decent version of reality.
Mind you, there's a lot I can find fault with in my little hometown. And it's impossible to be on Facebook & not know there are people who feel aspects of it have caused them great harm. I certainly had my painful moments with certain institutions & individuals, but came out of it the wiser for my traumas, with a certain peculiar grounding that seems rooted in whatever it is permeates my beloved boro.
Whatever it is, am grateful for the opportunities & challenges it helped nurture from my youngest years to my current titter tottering toward old age, for helping expand my capacity for giddy tears of disbelief that I get to be me.
To my friends with strong, stable partnerships, terrific kids, jobs they care about, lives that bring meaning to themselves & others - y'all deserve giddy tears of disbelief that it all happened to for through you, because it really is rare in today's world.
If you're not there already,
what needs to change to get you to giddy?
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