Don't waste your time

For over 10 years of my life I was angry, sad and unsure of where my life was headed. I lived my life for someone else trying to make them happy when I was so far from it. Then one day I realized there was much more to life than just someone else, there was me!

So I headed in a different direction hoping that I could find happiness. After 1000 beers later and lots of hangovers I was still in the same situation being angry, sad and unsure about life. Then one day when I wasn't looking or expecting I heard a voice that said hello. Little did I know that 2 years later she would become my wife.

We talked for months about our life, our kids and anything else we could think of, we became friends. Then I decided to take a vacation and went away for a week. What I was hoping to be a fun time (and in some ways it was) I became lonely and thinking about someone I had left behind, my friend!

After returning from vacation I noticed something had changed. What use to be my talking buddy had become so much more. Then one day out of the blue she said to me "I want to be more than just friends", something that I looked for so long but in all the wrong places. It's been 17 years since that time.

Sometimes we live out life for someone else, our kids thinking we are doing the right thing. Not knowing we are so unhappy and our life is on a downhill slide. We think about it but never do anything to change it. So we go on hurting our self and everyone we care about because they see how unhappy we are too!

Don't waste your time being unhappy. As the old saying goes "I wish that I would have known then, what I know now". If you know it, do something about it. It's the best thing that I ever did for my life!