Welcome to the first Sunday Suckables and Silver Linings post.
Each Sunday I’ll share one “Suckable” statement and one “Grateful” statement and then write five sentences about each one.
Studies show that when we pick one person or thing to be grateful for every day and write five specific sentences about it we become more elated, excited and improve our emotional health as opposed to remaining more tired, lethargic and sad if we only generalise about being grateful.
Need more info? Read what I wrote about it here.
In life there is always duality – happiness and sadness, laughter and tears, positive and negative. Without one the other cannot be fully appreciated. From suffering comes either bitterness to constrict the soul, or love and compassion to bring about its expansion toward serenity.
Angela McGerr
Hence my inclusion of the “Suckable” statement. Because… duality and all that jazz!
Oh, and I am so over the buzz word grateful that I will be using the statement “I am appreciative for” instead of “I am grateful for”.
Right!
Think that’s all you need to know (she says looking skyward with little finger in mouth… you know… the have I missed anything pose?)
I’d love for you to join in via the comment section below or over on your own blog! Let me know in the comments and I’ll come visit.
Here we go…
It sucks watching a parent age with health issues because –
1. Watching your rock experience vulnerability is like crushing your heart through a grief mincer, one slow agonizing crank of the handle at a time.
2. You have to climb out from under your rock and face the reality they are not immortal.
3. Second guessing your guidance of them is tormenting.
4. You hope they don’t notice the concern you try to hide in your eyes
5. You just can’t stop it and it just… sucks.
I am appreciative for – the relationship I have with my Mum because –
1. The way we don’t draw breath during a three hour car trip
2. She tells it like it is without offending
3. She is one of the kindest, caring and friendliest people I know
4. She has a wicked sense of humour
5. She taught me that as a parent you can only get up each day and do the best you can and if that comes from a place of love and kindness then you’ve done your best… don’t sweat it.
Okay so now it’s your turn.
And remember… there are no judgements here just safe validation.
Happy Sunday Xx
Your suckable made me feel very sad (my nose tingled….does that happen to you when you feel tears emerging?) But appreciative that my parents are still relatively fit and healthy. I rue the day though…..
And what a wonderful relationship you have with your Mum! I too share a special friendship with mine. We are blessed. Unfortunately not everyone can say the same which I think is so sad.
Here is my suckable and silver lining.
It sucks that my house is full of clutter lol! And this is why…..
1. I am overwhelmed by it. Everyday it gets me down.
2. I take pride in my home & love interior decorating but have no motivation at the moment. Too much ‘stuff’!
3. I find it hard to part with things. And so do my children.
4. We have outgrown our home.
5. Resolving this issue seems to be entirely left to me.
The silver lining. My life is rich with time spent doing things that I love.
1. Bike riding with my daughter.
2. Shopping with my son.
3. Supporting my husband at a recent social event.
4. Blogging.
5. Lying in bed on a Sunday morning, hot coffee at the ready thinking and writing about suckables and silver linings 😉
Decluttering can wait. Pfffft!
Yes we are blessed to have great friendships with our Mum’s. De-cluttering? Pewk… I’m in the middle of it now.
I smiled when I read your life is rich with time spent doing things you love… that’s a beautiful thing Shauna.
Thanks for joining in 🙂 Xx
This so related to me this week with my Dad hun and yep it sucks. If it is OK with you, iw ont focus on the suckable this week because there has just been too much suckable already in the world. Instead here is my grateful one.
I am grateful for blogging because:
1. It connects me with people who really get me and who I really relate to.
2. It allows me to open up in a way I am not always comfortable doing in person.
3. It has presented me and my family with some incredible memory making opportunities.
4. It forces me to reflect on life after things have happened and that helps me to heal.
5. it introduced me to a beautiful soul like you xx
Oh Sonia thank you for your No.5 you lovely thing you! I feel the same.
Watching a parent experience ill health makes me feel so helpless. Sorry to hear your Dad has been unwell too.
Thanks for joining in and sharing the reasons why you are so grateful for blogging. 🙂 Xx