I have been very behind in continuing my Renew for You series as well as my promised 2Happy4Tuesdays posts. BUT I am hoping to get off that “not meeting commitments train” and back onto the “YOU GO GIRL” train. Today I am thinking a lot about this song by Blake Shelton:
WHO ARE YOU WHEN I’M NOT LOOKING?
The lyrics speak to how we always show a good front – “Hold yourself together like a pair of bookends”, but asks some questions we all need to ask ourselves.
Who are you when I’m not around?
When the door is locked and the shades are down?
But who are you when I’m not looking?
I hear this song on my morning commute almost everyday and it reminds me that I DO NOT KNOW the answers to those questions. Have you figured out your style and stripped down all the crap to figure out who you really are? Until we do that, how can we truly be happy and take the leap to LIVE LIFE. Nothing reminds me more of the need to live life to its fullest than the recent tragedy in Japan.
I still struggle with this daily. If I did not have to be mother, wife, daughter, friend, blogger, WHO WOULD I BE? What would I do? What makes me happy? Sometimes it is not even a matter of hiding yourself to be someone you are not – which we all have done at one point or another. Sometimes in all the chaos of life, we just lose track of it.
So WHO ARE YOU when no one is looking?
As I continue to consider these questions, I will share my 2 Happy 4 Tuesday this week. I am way behind staying on track to find 100 Things That Make Me Happy, but I WILL GET THERE! Here are my 2:
- Watching Dancing with the Stars with my kids – while they attempt the dance moves simultaneously.
- Seeing the Liberty Tax dude dancing on the side of the road. Have you seen him? I will tell you that if that is not a prime example of making the best of a crappy job, I do not know what is. I have seen them in MA and RI. They are always active, waving, dancing, jumping – rain, snow, sleet – IT IS NUTS! But it ALWAYS makes me smile and believe things can be better for everyone.
What are your 2 for this week?
