Life is like ping pong. Not many people are considered ping pong experts, aficionados, or champions; most of us are basically horrible at ping pong, with most games ending in laughter and desperate, exaggerated arms flailing to at least try to hit the ball. I’ve noticed that a lot of people lately have been expressing their disappointment in themselves and their lives either via conversation or social media, myself and hubby included and it has really got me to thinking why. I think we all have the idea of what our perfect lives are, and social media allows us and our friends to show one another the “A squad” moments of our lives. That makes seeing our friends great moments so difficult, flooding our minds with thoughts of why we don’t have those looks, that house, those jobs, that relationship. We spend so much time waiting to enjoy life until we have all of the pieces of the puzzle in place… “Someday I will be happy when I live here, work there and find that perfect person…but until then, I will just…wait”. So we wait, and we wait, and life continues to happen, the good and the bad and then we look back questioning why did we wait so long to just BE. To be there, present and soaking each moment  as it happens, believing that yes, we deserve this goodness and the bad things are never bad enough to combat these special moments.

Since finally getting settled in the same city as my husband, we have both noted other things that we want and again finding ourselves saying “Someday” when “everything falls into place”. I’ve come to realize that maybe things never really fall into place. Maybe if we chose to be as happy and perfect as we make our Instagrams look, every day would be our perfect day in our perfect life. Taking the good with the bad, I will try to dwell less on the daily grind and soak in the little perfect moments of each day. I may never be perfect at the ping pong game of life, but you can surely bet I will smile and laugh my way as I do my best at each and every swing of the paddle.