Hello!
I swear the one thing I absolutely just want to kick myself for is when I feel or think I have a great idea and WHAMO! I find it somewhere else and it's been there for a long time.
KEY EXAMPLE: Today, for no reason at all, I thought let me "Google" my name and my blog name, Reclaiming Me, to see if anyone else out there is using it.
Come to find out there are quite a few people out there doing the same thing I am - using the same name and have the same focus. While I know that being unique is one thing that can get you noticed...OBVIOUSLY I am not unique today.
*SIGH*
Therefore, and it's probably really bad practice to do this but I am chancing my blog name slightly to my name, Amanda B Stuckey, and then Reclaiming Me. Probably a bad move but seriously, this just plain blows.
I sure hope this isn't what my whole day is going to be like.
Until Next Time.
Stay Cool.
A;)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Journey...NOT THE BAND
Good Morning!
I wanted to put out a post today just for the fun of it and it ended up being a good one, I think. Let me know and type a comment on my Facebook page or here if you can.
Reclaiming me is supposed to be about the trials and tribulations of losing yourself and rediscovering yourself.
How do you lose yourself you ask?
Gosh...let's see your job, your boss, your co-workers, your home, your kids, your spouse, your house, your pets, your parents, your grandparents, your in-laws, your cousins, your friends, your town, your church, your social life (or non-existence of one), etc..
I think you get the point.
When you're young, you have dreams and goals. What's great about that time is there is
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
stopping you. You can't see the pitfalls, the tragedy, the dark times of life. You are carefree and pure in your own thoughts and feelings.
Then people, things, and events start to mold your from this divine being into something NOT DIVINE. Thus, the beginning of you begin to losing yourself. Responsibilities over take your life and you forget about you.
It's kind of an "oxymoronic" occurrence really. You know like jumbo shrimp (oxymoron).
Think about it for a sec here. You start out with good intentions. As a child, your going to be a surgeon (that was mine). Then your conscious begins to develop and you start seeing other kids who want to be firemen or dancers. You start to doubt your choice of surgeon. You go into middle school and high school and become preoccupied with the opposite sex (which unfortunately never goes away).
Then, in college (if you get to go) you revisit your original goals to find out that it's too hard or more "fun" to hang with the "cool" kids. Some of you may have done this in high school too. You change your major 5-6 times. End up graduating only to find out, that it's nearly impossible to find a job in your major. Or the competition is so fierce that you get out ranked and out scored by hundreds of others.
So you lose a little bit more of yourself because you have to compromise to just make a living.
Enter responsibilities.
You meet the right person.
Start a family.
Buy a house.
Get a dog.
Have more kids.
Change jobs.
Etc, Etc, Etc...
Responsibilities are escalating at a fierce rate, huh?
And during all this, you put yourself and your wants and needs aside to make sure that everyone else in your life has their wants and needs.
This is wrong. Very wrong. Now I'm not saying be totally 100% selfish and let the crying infant fend for itself, but you have to make time to reclaim who you are and what makes you happy.
The problem I am having (and I see others having too) it that you are so far removed from yourself that you don't know, or remember, what it was you wanted in the first place. And the journey back is much harder than arriving at your current destination.
So take time for yourself. 15 minutes. 30 minutes. 1 Hour. Make sure you hold onto you. It will make you stronger for all of those around you.
Until Next Time.
Stay Cool.
Amanda :)
I wanted to put out a post today just for the fun of it and it ended up being a good one, I think. Let me know and type a comment on my Facebook page or here if you can.
Reclaiming me is supposed to be about the trials and tribulations of losing yourself and rediscovering yourself.
How do you lose yourself you ask?
Gosh...let's see your job, your boss, your co-workers, your home, your kids, your spouse, your house, your pets, your parents, your grandparents, your in-laws, your cousins, your friends, your town, your church, your social life (or non-existence of one), etc..
I think you get the point.
When you're young, you have dreams and goals. What's great about that time is there is
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
stopping you. You can't see the pitfalls, the tragedy, the dark times of life. You are carefree and pure in your own thoughts and feelings.
Then people, things, and events start to mold your from this divine being into something NOT DIVINE. Thus, the beginning of you begin to losing yourself. Responsibilities over take your life and you forget about you.
It's kind of an "oxymoronic" occurrence really. You know like jumbo shrimp (oxymoron).
Think about it for a sec here. You start out with good intentions. As a child, your going to be a surgeon (that was mine). Then your conscious begins to develop and you start seeing other kids who want to be firemen or dancers. You start to doubt your choice of surgeon. You go into middle school and high school and become preoccupied with the opposite sex (which unfortunately never goes away).
Then, in college (if you get to go) you revisit your original goals to find out that it's too hard or more "fun" to hang with the "cool" kids. Some of you may have done this in high school too. You change your major 5-6 times. End up graduating only to find out, that it's nearly impossible to find a job in your major. Or the competition is so fierce that you get out ranked and out scored by hundreds of others.
So you lose a little bit more of yourself because you have to compromise to just make a living.
Enter responsibilities.
You meet the right person.
Start a family.
Buy a house.
Get a dog.
Have more kids.
Change jobs.
Etc, Etc, Etc...
Responsibilities are escalating at a fierce rate, huh?
And during all this, you put yourself and your wants and needs aside to make sure that everyone else in your life has their wants and needs.
This is wrong. Very wrong. Now I'm not saying be totally 100% selfish and let the crying infant fend for itself, but you have to make time to reclaim who you are and what makes you happy.
The problem I am having (and I see others having too) it that you are so far removed from yourself that you don't know, or remember, what it was you wanted in the first place. And the journey back is much harder than arriving at your current destination.
So take time for yourself. 15 minutes. 30 minutes. 1 Hour. Make sure you hold onto you. It will make you stronger for all of those around you.
Until Next Time.
Stay Cool.
Amanda :)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Internal GPS Defective
Good Morning,
I am currently not in my normal location but needed to do a blog post. I have a question to pose...
Has anyone felt like they don't know which was was up, down, left, right, in, out, or any other direction?
That's where my internal GPS has had some sort of malfunction. Reclaiming Me has had a serious internal GPS defect surface.
At least in the past, I've been moving forward. Just one direction. It's been foggy, couldn't see my hand in front of my face, taking baby steps, but now...nothing.
I'm am truly lost. What do you do?
I am honestly asking anyone out there in cyberspace...
What do you do?
I refuse to curl up into a ball and sit still because I feel like if I do, then I will get stuck there inevitable. Frozen in place. Time standing still. And I know that's just not right, not right for anyone.
I had an aunt say to me, "You're going through one of those dark periods that life gives you from time to time."
That's a scary thought.
I believe her but it doesn't lessen the intensity of the situation. I asked her, "Any idea how long these last? I am about tapped out."
She responded, "What's that saying, God only gives you what you can handle."
While I find some comfort in that statement, it's still frightening because of the unknown.
--Don't know how to react
--Don't know what's ahead
--Don't know where our lives are heading
--Don't know how we are going to survive
--Don't know what to decide
--Don't know...
--Don't know...
--Don't know...
Man am I rambling today. Sorry everyone. Well, I think you get what reclaiming me is trying to get at today.
The one thing I, you, anyone, cannot do is give up.
HOPE that it will work out. FAITH that the good people of this world will be rewarded. PATIENCE that perseveres through this dark time.
Stay strong my friends (I feel like that XX Dos Equis beer commercial dude saying that). The advice for the day. Just stay strong today and see what tomorrow brings.
Until Next Time.
Stay Cool.
Amanda ;)
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