What does the
following quote mean to you? "You don’t get to pick where you’re
from, but you always have control of where you’re going."
I think everyone knows that you don’t get to pick where you’re from. You don’t get to pick your parents, siblings, family or where you grow up. However, you do get to decide what you’re going to do with the “cards you’ve been dealt.” I have never met my real father. He left my mom when she was in the hospital, minutes after I was born. However, when I was 2 my mom married the man I know to be my father. He has been there for me through everything since then. He’s the only man I know to be my dad, he’s the man that walked me down the aisle and gave me away to my husband, and he’s the first man I loved. He has never treated me like I was not his child, and in fact, we both often forget that he’s not my birth-father! I could dwell on the fact that the man who created me walked away without ever knowing me, refused to even sign off on my adoption papers because he wouldn’t claim me, and has never been a part of my life. OR I can embrace the fact that a wonderful man stepped into my life, raised me, gave me away and is now the grandfather to my children all because he CHOSE to!
I think everyone knows that you don’t get to pick where you’re from. You don’t get to pick your parents, siblings, family or where you grow up. However, you do get to decide what you’re going to do with the “cards you’ve been dealt.” I have never met my real father. He left my mom when she was in the hospital, minutes after I was born. However, when I was 2 my mom married the man I know to be my father. He has been there for me through everything since then. He’s the only man I know to be my dad, he’s the man that walked me down the aisle and gave me away to my husband, and he’s the first man I loved. He has never treated me like I was not his child, and in fact, we both often forget that he’s not my birth-father! I could dwell on the fact that the man who created me walked away without ever knowing me, refused to even sign off on my adoption papers because he wouldn’t claim me, and has never been a part of my life. OR I can embrace the fact that a wonderful man stepped into my life, raised me, gave me away and is now the grandfather to my children all because he CHOSE to!
I believe that
it’s easy to dwell on the negative. It’s easy to focus on being poor, not
having things that it seems everyone else has, not being able to do this or do
that, being overweight, not being as pretty or as tall as you think you should
be. However, if we stop doing that and take time to look at what we DO have,
life is so much better! If we focus on the positives and what we can control
than eventually those other things become less important!
** Now, for your assignment, make sure you copy and paste the prompt to the top of your post (NOT the title - put Writing Prompt #2 as your title). Your entry should be at LEAST 100 words (not counting the prompt). To help you get an idea of how much 100 words is, my entry (not counting the prompt and not counting this explanation) was 311 words.
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