Just One Of Those Days

You know those days when you just feel like you can't do it right?  Do enough?  Be enough?

Today is one of those days.

It wasn't, earlier today.  A good friend helped me paint the nursery this morning and that was so fun and it is always encouraging to be with her.

But then I saw a few things on social media that just made me sad because they were reminders that I can't do it all.  I can't have my entire house finished the way I want it.  I also don't seem to have anything exactly the way I want it yet either, which doesn't help.  And it seems everyone else does.

And you know what I hate about that?  Everyone posts everything they've done right.  No one seems to post their failures.

I don't mean complaints or worries--people post plenty of that.

But they don't post their dirty sinks, full laundry baskets, unfinished painting, mismatched fans, low test scores, stressed out to-do lists, dying relationships, etc.  You get my point.

And I've noticed that whenever people do post about the things that are the "dirty sinks" of their lives, it's often lighthearted as if to say they didn't care, it didn't actually bother them.

Isn't everyone running around thinking that everyone else has it all together?  Everyone pins their favorite pictures on Pinterest, but no one lives Pinterest lives.  In order to look like they do though, they upload altered pictures on Instagram and show how great their lives are on Facebook, and tweet their witty comments.

I don't want to be like that.  I want to live real life in the here and now, not worried or anxious about what other people think about my home, my choices, or my opinions.

I want to be grateful for the blessings I've been given.  Why waste my time wishing I had more of anything--even time, creativity, or motivation?  Wishing does nothing.  I want to make the best use of what I do have, and that means remembering the truth of what is instead of being distracted by what is not.