Someone said to me recently that they don't want to waste their life having kids and a white picket fence and the stereo typical American dream; that they would rather see the world and have more followers on social media and gain the attention of the world in order to feel successful and loved. Their idea of a wasted life is very much different than mine. I don't consider having a family, a career, a home and unconditional love from beings that I created to be a wasted life. For me, I could say that because they don't have those things, perhaps their life is wasted but I won't say that because they've chosen the life that they have for themselves and if they chose not to have with things that I have, it does not make them better; it does not make them superior; it does not make them more worthy of others time and attention. Their fame and fortune matter as less to me as my family values and my current situation in life do to them. Sure my dream is not to have 1 million followers on social media; my dreams do not involve traveling all over the world alone looking for something; my dreams do not involve continuously waiting for people's approval of me. My dreams are my reality and that reality is having a family with three amazing kids, a husband that I adore, a career that I enjoy, and the happiness of knowing that I made the choices in my life to have these things; that my choices do not mean less than theirs because they feel my choices are nothing short of mediocre.
Calling my life boring or mediocre simply because that is the life that they chose not to have does not mean my life is less important; that the choices that I've made in my life are inferior to yours and I'm less deserving of other peoples time and attention. They can live their life however they choose and I shall live mine however I choose. Judging and criticizing me for having the life that I have which is so vastly different from the life that they have or want makes no difference to me....because I love my life and I don't have to go searching for anything to make me whole or happy.
