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I'm learning to like myself now that I'm a grownup. I do volunteer work with seniors. I'm trying hard to win a decades long battle with agoraphobia and anxiety disorders. I am someone's first Mom and sometimes I talk about adoption and the lasting affect it can have on people.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Events Of Your Life

A few years ago I picked up a little book called Witty Words From Wise Women.  It's just a small book filled with short quotes or paragraphs written by women who are famous for one thing or another.  I was thumbing through it earlier today and found this quote by Anne Wilson Schaef.      She said "you need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours".

I have a very bad habit of sometimes stepping outside of my life and just watching the world go by.  Putting myself on hold while I wait for someone else make a decision about where I should be placed in their life, or, if I should be placed there at all.

For some reason her quote resonated with me tonight, and I feel much better about just saying meh... you can decide whether or not I fit into your life on your own time.  I'll be over here living mine and owning it.  

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