Live Your Best Life

It was a day like any other day, the sun was shining on my perfectly manicured lawn and I was heading towards my recently detailed car with my to do list in hand.  I had decided the night before just how my day would go…I had lived this day a thousand times before; each time striving to get everything done and appear to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect employee and the perfect friend.  After all, as long as people believed I had it all together that’s all that mattered.  Of course, I knew the truth but I kept my flaws deeply hidden, I distracted myself and others by doing and going.  I was living the life, or so I thought.  I showed people only what I thought they wanted to see and on some level I began to believe my own façade.  I had carved out a niche for myself – I was the one who had it together. But somehow this day became like no other.   In the midst of my hustle and bustle, I paused lon...

I wish I could take credit for this one.   It's been around for over 50 years and  it still holds true for so many of us.  Take your time as you read this  and  re-read it again and again.   Take Care, Norma  Don’t Be Fooled By Me by Charles C. Finn Please don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face I wear,  for I wear a mask. I wear a thousand masks,  masks that I'm afraid  to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is  second nature to me, but don't be fooled, for God's sake  don't be fooled. I give you the impression I'm secure and that all is sunny  and unruffled with me, within as well as without, that confidence is my name, coolness my game, that water is calm and I'm in command  and that I need no one, but don't believe me, please don't believe me. My surface may be smooth, but my surface is a mask - my every  varying and ever concealing mask.  Beneath it dwe...