HARD AS WE MIGHT...

Most of the time, we struggle to keep or maintain the balance especially because we juggle a lot -- school, work, relationships etc. As a blue-blood, you try to live up to the expectation of the effortless, "right everything" lifestyle. I know it's hard, I try to do that almost everyday. Let me take you through an experience I had earlier today and what I made of it.

    

I slept rather late, at about 4.30 am, had to wake up for devotion at 6am. I heard a familiar voice calling my name and since my subconscious is already "programmed" to answer, I just said "Yes, I'm coming" and like always, I snooze for extra five minutes because I'm thinking, "before everyone gets down there, I'd have had extra five minutes of sleep". The next thing, I woke up after maybe ten minutes and realised that the singing had begun. I jumped up, quickly made use of the loo and started running downstairs. That was when my friction-less slippers gave what was supposed to be my subtle devotion appearance/entrance, away.... And SPLAT! My rear is on the staircase, bouncing about three more steps forward before I got that balance... There was a rush of "are you okay?", "hope you didn't hurt yourself?" and one funny one "what is wrong with you now? do you want to injure yourself?"  I replied with "I'm okay, no problem".

Although I was in the presence of my family members but I was embarrassed for about...a second, cos everybody thought that I fell off cos I was sleepy and truth is, I was wide awake considering how I jumped off the bed...or so I thought. That's how it is with us most times, we try so hard to paint the perfect picture of our lives and we fall flat on our faces and everyone can see that you are actually struggling with something... Something that you could have easily talked to a trusted friend about. The deal is, it's okay to be normal and process pain or stress like a human. Sometimes, it allows people see the "fleshy" you and not the metallic, "Bree Van de Kamp" you. Sometimes, you can cry, that doesn't make you a weak person, it just shows that you've got blood in your veins and you aren't one of the Avengers. Besides, you never know who may lend a helping hand.

So be in touch with the human aspect of you. Most times, allowing ourselves take part in those emotions can release us into taking the next course of action. I'm not saying be a whiny, emotional wreck, I'm saying admit the way you feel instead of putting on a show or living according to how people expect you to live....and just take it from there. I'd like to add at this point that truly admitting our feelings concerning issues we face gives us stronger answers and steps to take than ignoring them all together.

Funny enough, I find this post very beneficial to me....lol! 

Have a lovely day and Stay blue-blooded. xoxo