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Accounting for Everything: Her Happy Life Now
A headline on the cover of a women's magazine. This woman lost 109 pounds. This businessman left his corporate life and now emails digital pictures of butterflies to his daughter from his Costa Rican tree house. The stories of renewal are relentless and daunting.
It is clear why we are celebrating these people. She was a glutton and now she does pilates. He was a money obsessed workaholic and now he writes in a journal. But what of that? Shouldn't these things be a given? She was a drug addicted single mother of 4 and now she's going to community college so she can take good care of her kids. He was in jail for countless crimes but now he's stopped knocking down old ladies.
What about the people that have the strength and courage to NEVER DO THAT SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE? The ones who worked damn hard at not giving themselves an eating disorder in high school. At not having a police record. At not being bullies. Who have always valued life over profit. Who have always held the people they love as their first priority.
It begs the question....where's their parade?
You don't have to go through hell to get to heaven. You merely need to finish what you start. You don't have to hit rock bottom to pick yourself up and dust yourself off, you just need to stumble.
And finally, you don't need to run away to gain a new perspective, you just need to take a step back.
I'm just sayin....
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