Adulthood is highly overrated...

Today we got together and celebrated our family's two college graduates...Cara and Elizabeth... They are making plans, and starting jobs and looking for jobs and starting grad school...and in so many ways starting their adult lives.  My niece leaves to her new life in two days.  I told her I can't believe she's all grown up...she's an adult.  "Adulthood is highly overrated", she replied.  Amen!!  I couldn't agree more.

As children we wish to be more independent, more in charge of our life...and then when that day finally comes, we realize all the responsibilities that go along with that...and how very complicated life can often be.
We set out with plans and dreams...we set out down a path and our road twists and turns and we wind up in places that we were never expecting.  The life we envisioned back when we were young...isn't necessarily the life we end up with.  We started out full of dreams, idealistic and ready to change the world...and then we learned about the politics of just about every situation.

If I could wish anything for these young women...it would be that they keep an optimistic spirit...no matter which way the path seems to lead. I wish that they always realize that the most important thing about life...is not the job, or the house or the car or the money...but the people in their life...family and friends...who love and support them...and who they will support in return.  I wish that they will always find something to love about their life,  that they will find a way to reinvent themselves when necessary.   I wish for them a fulfilling career...but also hours spent making memories with loved ones and days exploring new places and new people.  I pray that they will always remember...that everyone they encounter....EVERYONE.....has a story...and each story is important and worth listening to.

Above all, I wish them a heart full of love....and eyes to see the silver linings in clouds...and every day as a new opportunity, and the knowledge that they are not in this alone.

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

~ Herman Melville