Through the Tiny Heartbeats

Daily writing prompt

What’s a lesson you’ve learned recently that shifted your perspective?

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Through all the trials and tribulations, there has been one voice with one lesson that plays over and over and soothes the pain. I lost my father to his alcoholism when I was about to turn 30. Even though that was 7 years ago, this same lesson still rings true today with what I am currently muddling through. Through the loses, my mother has always been there and when my father took his own life I couldn’t wrap my head around it and it really shook my to my core. What do I do now? My father is gone…One of the people who were supposed to care the most and be a voice of reason had made so many awful decisions and was now gone. I’ll never forget my mom who had also lost someone who was in her life for over 20 years said to me “we’re going to be okay. Think of all we have. It hurts now because we tend to dwell on what is missing from our lives rather than what we have.” I bring this lesson into my life anytime I go through something difficult. I just suffered a miscarriage and even though it is one of the most painful experiences, I choose to focus on my babies, the life my husband and I have built and the family and friends around me. I know there are others in this world wishing for the things I have and try to remember that even my worst day might be considered someone’s best day. #grateful