I remember as a kid thinking how I couldn\u2019t wait to become and adult because life seemed so much easier for adults. Being a kid felt hard\u2026.I mean after all, Adults got to go out whenever they wanted to, they had money to buy whatever they wanted (at least that\u2019s what you thought as a kid), they can stay up as late as they want and watch movies whenever they want\u2026life for adults seemed awesome!\u00a0 So much better than the hard life of a kid\u2026right?<\/p>\n
Then you grow up and actually become an adult and you are like \u201cWT_?!?\u201d\u00a0 This isn\u2019t easy at all! Sure you can stay up as late as you want but you are too freaking tired to because you just worked your butt off all day at a job so you can earn enough money to at least pay your bills and then only sometimes when there is a little money left over to buy things you want you can\u2019t because you have to buy things for your kids instead! Being an adult is NOTHING like you thought it was as a child. It\u2019s HARD!<\/p>\n
So I go back to my opening question, \u201cDoes life ever get easier?\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t actually know. I could easily sit here and say that life will be so much easier when we get to retire and just hang out doing crafts and playing golf all day, because that\u2019s all you have to do when you get to be old, right? It seems so easy for them.\u00a0 But I have a feeling that when we get to be old we will realize that being retired means having to take a million medications to fight off our ailments and it means having to walk really slow so you don\u2019t fall and break a hip and it means being lonely cause all your kids are grown and busy living lives of their own\u2026.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m guessing the answer is no, it doesn\u2019t really get easier, it just gets hard in different ways. So if there is a lesson to learn from realizing that it is this \u2013 We need to decide to BE HAPPY NOW! Don\u2019t wait for life to get easier to be happy because you will likely be waiting your entire life only to find that it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cLearn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Earl Nightingale<\/p>\n I love that. I needed that reminder today. Sometimes I get caught up in the stress of things and find myself thinking, \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when I can get through this current situation and then life will get easier.\u201d So I needed to remind myself that no matter what stress or problems we are dealing with we can still choose to be happy and enjoy our life! So that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do dang it!<\/p>\n \u201cThe trick is to enjoy life. Don\u2019t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Marjorie Hinckley<\/p>\n Smiles<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember as a kid thinking how I couldn\u2019t wait to become and adult because life seemed so much easier for adults. Being a kid felt hard\u2026.I mean after all, Adults got to go out whenever they wanted to, they had money to buy whatever they wanted (at least that\u2019s what you thought as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3403,3342,174,501,46,204,5903,6311,63,999,240,163,4501,6307,6308,57,717,6087,51,189,132,7,65,3764,55,1975,629,464,296,35,6309,53,1877,349,490,6312,6313,5361,27,112,81,275,149,281,4736,6310],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult","tag-aging","tag-anxiety","tag-appreciate","tag-attitude","tag-awesome","tag-be-happy-now","tag-bills","tag-blessings","tag-child","tag-children","tag-courage","tag-curfew","tag-does-life-get-easier","tag-earl-nightingale","tag-easy","tag-enjoy","tag-enjoyment","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-future","tag-gratitude","tag-growing-up","tag-happiness","tag-hard","tag-inspiration","tag-joy","tag-lesson","tag-love","tag-marjorie-hinckley","tag-motivation","tag-movies","tag-peace","tag-reminder","tag-retired","tag-retirement","tag-savor","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-smile","tag-stress","tag-success","tag-trials","tag-trick","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}