Today I had a little something that has been bugging me. Something on my mind and surely something I shouldn’t be wasting my time thinking about, but I did and it got me down.
So there I was cooking dinner and watching and waiting for the pot of water to boil (it wouldn’t, go figure lol). Larry strolled on in and told me some news about his trumpet playing as he had just gotten done practicing. Then he looked at me and said “why are you sad mommy?”. I just looked at him and said I was thinking about a time a long time ago when I was in a situation where people weren’t very nice to me and it made me sad. He looked at me with this “duh” look and said “Mom, why are you thinking about that. That is way behind you, its in the past and you never have to see those people again. Life’s good!”
This is significant in so many ways. 1. He’s right. But that’s not what made me cry tears of joy. 2. HE GETS IT. Normally he’s a dweller (*looks around* dunno where he got that from) He focuses on something until he has inspected and evaluated it from every angle….that can take a significant amount of time. 3. He must be finally learning to cope with the nasty kids at school who have made it their personal mission to make him sad. THANK YOU! He sounded just like one of those lessons. 4. Usually, he’s Eeyore. To break from Eeyore and start moving toward Pooh or even Tigger well, I’m just thrilled!
So if something ever bugs me too much I’m just going to look at Larry and remember if he can do it so can I because what he faces is so much harder than anything I do. He’s a kid and shouldn’t be anything but happy, and he is that. Damn, I have one smart kid.
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