Another "I Could Have Written This" Post

I regularly blog stalk surf among blogs of old friends from Columbus. Most of them are in similar situations with our husbands all graduating med school at the same time. So it's rather easy to identify with them.

I like it.

Plus, my friend Shannon is so talented in blogging and photography, it's hard not to go to her blog to see what she is up to or took a photo of.

Her recent post is what I have been trying to get out in a well worded post for MONTHS! It is yet another one of those, I could have written it myself (I am sure she has much better grammar though).

VISIT HER BLOG HERE

Here is the post quoted directly from her blog:

People are driving me insane lately. And it all boils down to two things: people are whiny and lazy. They want results they don’t deserve and they want them now. And when these results don’t magically appear on their little doorstep wrapped up in a pretty bow, they get whiny about how their lives are so horrible without reflecting on why they are the way they are. And why does So-and-so have it so good? It must be luck because it’s not like they worked to get there or sacrificed anything along the way.

If you want something, work for it. Earn it. Deserve it. Sacrifice for it. Quit whining about things that can’t be changed and start fixing the things that can be (so cliché, but true). Yes, some people are luckier than others. But more often than not, the ‘lucky’ ones you’re comparing yourself to have worked their butts off and sacrificed a great deal to be good at something, to be successful at something, to be secure, to be happy. You are not entitled to have the luxuries of life without earning them.

This is not a political rant (although I suppose it could be). Think this is targeted at you? You’re probably right, even if I’ve never met you. In fact, probably all you people nodding along, going, “Yeah! Seriously!” need to hear it the most. Don’t exclude yourself. I know I don’t and have to tell myself this same lecture to stop my own whining from time to time (and when I start to forget myself, I’m proud that I have a husband who can lovingly say to me, ‘Do something about it’).

Look at your life. What are you unhappy with? What are you perpetually whining to people about? What do you want your life to look like, and why doesn’t it look that way? And perhaps most importantly, how much are you willing to sacrifice to make it what you want? If you’re not willing to sacrifice the time and effort and whatever else it’ll take along the way to get you there, STOP WHINING! You don’t deserve the results if you’re not willing to work for them.

I know we all have our bad days and need a good whine session, but once that’s over, it’s time to start fixing the problems instead of continually complaining about them over and over again. There’s probably a reason nothing’s changing. Learn from your mistakes. Stop being hasty. Stop being greedy. Stop being selfish. Quit making bad choices and start making good ones. Think. Things. Through.

Amen.

Time for us all to get off our whiny lazy hiney and WORK IT GIRL! Thanks Shannon for a great reminder and wonderfully worded post!