"I will try again tomorrow"...

"Courage does not always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "i will try again tomorrow." {mary anne radmacher}

A lot of things have been happening in my life right now. They're not necessarily bad or depressing things, more like overwhelming. Have you ever experienced a period in your life like this? Where you're so overwhelmed that it's affecting how you think, your mood, your actions etc.? It's frustrating because most of the time I know I'm doing it but I can't make it stop and then it begins to affect my relationships with my friends, boyfriend, co-workers. But I can't figure out whether it's because we're hoping someone will reach out to us...or for someone to take notice of something that is going on in our lives...or for someone to just listen. My boyfriend (Chris) and I are moving in together and it feels like our lives are consumed about PSE&G, cable, figuring out what we need for the apartment, when to put the heat on (or should we even use heat), how we're going to get the ridiculous couch up the stairs, budgeting, yes, no, up, down, who's right, who's wrong, food from Shop Rite or Stop and Shop? Which ones cheaper? Gym memberships and cell phone bills, 5 minute showers, to use or not use the dishwasher, football or Brothers and Sisters (our solution to that one is two TV's, so one down 5,000 decisions to go)...and on and on it goes. But that's our life together, and even though we're stressed, we're excited and stressed together...but what about our closest friends who are going through some of the hardest times in their relationships? One final breakup, one getting rid of all the alcohol in the house, one moving out and breaking up. In the midst of our overwhelming list for our place, our friends are looking to us for help. All I want to do is help them, I wish I could give them sound advice, answers to their questions but the only thing I can tell them is that things will get better and tomorrow's a new day...which I continuously tell myself as little bits of me fall apart. I love my friends more than anything but I can't give them concrete advice with my head spinning like a cyclone and that just adds the overwhelming need for everything to be okay.

I happened to be on facebook earlier(okay, who just "happens" to be on facebook, but never-the-less) and a friend of mine posted a blog about a woman who is a wife and a mother to 5 and went through a traumatic experience at a young age and how she overcame every obstacle (I will let you read her story for yourself and will post the URL for the blog at the end of my post**). After reading such a touching story, I started to feel so foolish that I've been so wrapped up with my own issues, Chris and I moving in, my parent's divorce, my sister learning to be on her own, leaving everything I've known to try something new (which I've done before but this time it's not escaping to Florence, Italy for 6 months). But then I started looking around on the website. What I came across was something that instantly warmed me and made me feel that everything I'm going through are things that I can overcome. This website is created by two women (sisters) who are devoted to giving kindness, love, bravery, confidence and among so much more, to women across the world. They're known as the Brave Girls Club and they have every bit of braveness and all that goes with it. They are extroadinary women who are just like me but have a mission to make the world a better place with kind words and love.

Please check out their website and spend some time emersing yourself in their terrific blogs and learning what they're all about, they've touched my lif just as much as they've touched so many others.

www.bravegirlsclub.edu
http://bravegirlsclub.com/blog/?p=1411 - **blog you should check out