My oldest son gave me a gift for Christmas last year called Storyworth. It's the product of a company that prompts me every week to write an essay about myself based on a question they send me by email. At the end of the year, this company will publish the essays into a little book of 52 memories for my son to have as a keepsake about his mother--ME!
One of the questions a few months ago asked what advice I would give to future generations of my family. Since I am in my 80th year now, it's been a long, long time since anyone solicited my advice. Plus, I realized that now my advice would be way different than it might have been 15 or 20 years ago.
So, I condensed a whole lot of living into the following statement. Short and simple. And doable.
Maybe it might strike a chord with you...
There are a lot of things that are going to happen in your life that might not turn out the way you wanted…in the beginning.
So, after a lifetime of being disappointed sometimes when things ended up differently than I had set in my mind, I also learned that when I was patient and let things run their course without getting upset and demanding what I wanted right at the moment, things had a way of turning out. Different maybe, but acceptable.
So, my advice is to be patient. Let the details of life run their own course at times. Things have a way of working out—sometimes for the better.
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