Social media can be a wonderful thing. I enjoy seeing what
different people have to say on Instagram and the little insights some of them
offer into my day.
But at some point the ‘ideal and beautiful’ posts turn my
stomach. Posts like “Find the good. Notice what catches the light and let the
rest get blurry” make me want to scream. Sometimes I want to comment that those words are lovely and all, but the rest of us live in the real world where
the muggy air is less about the promise of beautiful rain and more about the
fact that my hair is going to frizz like crazy.
It’s like those old ladies who say to cherish every moment
with your baby. I’m really sorry, y’all, but the only way us sucker moms have
more than one kid is to forget about the screaming/crying/throwing up/biting of
the first one. Those memories are skipping the ‘cherish and remember’ file and
hopping right on back to the ‘shred then set on fire then bury in the middle of
nowhere’ file.
All this to say—I’m taking some time off from the ‘grasping
every bit of time’ stuff and indulging in the ‘name that movie quote’ stuff.
That’s about all I have the energy for.
