Monday, 02 March 2009

• Life is like a revolving door.  We seem to be on this invisible treadmill trying to accomplish anything before we are hit by another of life’s situation.  It makes it seem as if we are running in circles for most of our life.

  I look at my life and reflect upon how my children’s lives are similar and sometimes mirror my life. 

   

  I know that we learn from our parents, guardians, care givers, and people who reared us, how to behave in life and its situations.  But did you ever say something and it just about knocked you for a loop because that is just what your “Mom” or “Dad” would say.  Oh my gawd you think to yourself “am I turning into my parent?”

  Well by golly you sure are.  It is that old revolving door syndrome.  Our lives always seem to mirror the lives that are closes to us.  So is it so bad that you have picked up that annoying trait of bitching at your kids, spouse, boyfriend for not picking up after themselves, I mean where were they raised in a barn???  And don’t forget this one “who do I look like your Mom, or the maid?”

   

  Oh and that is the other joke life plays on us.  We even start to look like our parents.  GAWD!

  I remember 7 years ago when I was living in California I would visit my parents and someone would stop me by saying “Hi Kay” and I would have to tell them that I wasn’t my Mother.  How depressing! Don’t get me wrong I love my Mother but I don’t want to be mistaken for my Mom.  I wanted to go home and hang myself….(not really)

   

  When I look at my children I see me in a lot of the things they say, how they act, and what they do in certain situations.

  I hope that my children don’t want to run away from the “me-isms” that they have inherited.  I hope that because my life was hard that my children have learnt good lessons so that they have the ability to make it in any given situation in life even if it might mirror what I would of done, said, or how I would of acted.

   

  Now with the passing of my years I view things differently, then when I was younger and less wiser, what my parents tried to give me.  Even if I cringe when I my grand child doesn’t want to eat something and I hear my daughter tell them “there are staving kids in Africa that would love eat that”.  Isn’t that what my parents said? I think I even used that one on them too. Or "if you keep making that face, it will freeze that way", I always wondered if it would…seems it didn’t through(looking in the mirror). 

   

  Here are a few of the me-isms that were passed on to me from my parents;

   

  Don’t forget to wear clean underwear you never know when you will be in an accident.

  I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it.

  He doesn’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

  It’s for your own good.

  It’s going to hurt me more then its going to hurt you.

   

  Do you remember a saying or trait that your parents seemed to have passed on to you?  Can you add on to these pearls of wisdom???

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