Skip to main content

The One Where You Learn to Become a Realist, Too

 I have a perspective that some people might be shocked to see - because we don’t often admit weakness or struggles and we told to “stay strong”, “it’ll get better”, “be positive” (I even say it sometimes). 

Especially as Catholics (Christians) life really IS just like a rollercoaster. 🎢 


You go up reeeeaally slowly and only stay up there for a split second then you fall back down so fast your stomach does flips.  That’s been me for my entire adulthood so I guess I’m just kind of used to it.  Every time something good happens I know tragedy or heartache is coming soon ten fold. 


That’s why I’ve become a realist.  Not a pessimist, not an optimist.  I trust God that He has a plan for me, YES - but God never promised sunshine and rainbows 🌈 until after the darkness, sufferings, storms, and floods. 


Being realistic means not getting your hopes up for something you have no control over, but still keeping your faith that God has a lesson or reason for everything.  And this type of thinking works for me, and it works for some other people close to me in my life who struggle like so many of us do.  


With every single plunge to the bottom, God sends me people. Sometimes they are people I’ve known for ever and sometimes they are brand new people placed very specifically into my life for that particular season.  But nonetheless, I have my people who I can call or text when I’m truly feeling like I’m “on the ledge.”


Do you have your people?


Do you need some? 


***(I’m a mental health nurse and certified advocate: When I post or write something I am using my PAST experiences or some from others’ I’ve helped to pass it on to more people - I am not posting because I’M currently struggling- but TY for those who reach out with concern )***



God Bless,
Christen

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The One Where Everyone Had a Choice

I’m sure I’ll get hate for this, but it’s the truth. I didn’t judge others for making their own personal choice, but they sure as heck judged ME and anyone who didn’t agree with them. I’m honestly starting to get more and more frustrated being four years out from when people had to choose between their jobs and the sh0t…. Saying that you “were forced” to get it truly isn’t accurate. We all had a choice. I’m a nurse. I’m also a single mom of two. I left my career to stand up for what I believe in. I’m not judging you for making the choice that you felt was best for you and your family based on information you had at the time… Even though many of YOU judged people like me for “not complying”. You possibly even called me a conspiracy theorist and told me that if I didn’t get it, I shouldn’t be a nurse anyway. But I AM saying that as a mental health nurse, I know the difference between holding someone down and forcing them to take an injection and giving them a choice with an ultimatum or...
Post a Comment
Read more

The One With the Corrections Officer Strike

As a former Corrections Nurse, I will not remain silent on the issue going on in New York State right now. Corrections Officers are taken for granted. They are forced to work 8 extra hours on an almost daily basis. *Imagine going in for a 16 hour overnight shift from 3pm to 7am and then at about 6:30am when you are "finally almost done" you are ordered to stay until 3pm the next day - for a total of a 24 hour shift that you hadn't planned on. *Imagine being the only person assigned to a cell block for your entire shift, sometimes without a break because you are short staffed. *Imagine knowing that the prisoners are accused but not yet convicted of murder, and you have no idea if they might have a shiv/shank in their cell/room that could be used on you at any given moment. *Imagine knowing that when the nurses come on the unit with another officer to give out medication, you then feel responsible for their lives, too and would never forgive yourself if you fail to keep th...
Post a Comment
Read more

The One Where You Learn to Have Empathy

💥I’m not a fan of Biden But I can acknowledge that what happened to him at the end of his term was a complete disregard for his human dignity when he had actual cognitive issues and it made me sad just to see him getting made fun of by MAGA and put on display by his own wife. 💥I’m not a fan of Zelenskyy But I can acknowledge that making fun of someone from another country in a room full of men laughing and then being berated in front of the whole world is absolutely disrespectful and is bullying at if’s worst. Vance and Trump could absolutely have been kinder and still stern. You don’t humiliate another world leader whose country is at war while trying to make a deal. 💥I’m not a fan of Trump But I can acknowledge that no matter how you FEEL about HIM, it needs to be put aside when his guests are parents of a girl who was brutally murdered and a little boy with cancer. Those who didn’t stand or clap out of respect last night should be ASHAMED of themselves. I am absolutely disgusted ...
Post a Comment
Read more