Fighting the Good Fight

I sit on a countertop in the kitchen of my mother’s house. Mom’s asleep. My sister sits across the room from me, phone to ear: arguing. It’s really more of a begging, hidden by the mask of a list of articulate arguments.

I almost had deja vu. No more than a month ago, I sat in someone else’s kitchen, helping two friends compile a list of compelling talking points…I helped them figure out how to tactfully beg for something that, we know now, (for the sake of these two friends) clearly was not meant to be.

My sister’s voice sounds convincing, yet shaky. I see now that she truly believes things WILL turn around and go her way.

When, in life, do you find room to learn if you can always argue your way…and win. I find we’ll keep making the same mistakes if we only try turning around when they come up. It’s when we screw up, we fight like hell to undo the screw up, and we LOSE that fight…it’s then that we really are forced to learn. We face consequences, we usually find the light or the this-is-how-it-was-supposed-to-be in the end results, and we come out stronger. So, I guess, in the end, if you know how to turn negatives into positives and mistakes into lessons, we always get our way.

I’ve made mistakes in my life. Last year, I made almost a years worth of ongoing mistakes…All culminating in what would slowly begin to transition (almost a year ago now) into a lifetime of lessons. My “hard time” has become SO many things…I made mistakes that have granted me the gift of a life that I own.

And it’s already starting…
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