A Great Place to Be... ?

You come home after spending a few hours of quality time with your mom. You walk in, dinner is ready. You make your plate, sit down and devour the light and flavorful salmon, wild rice and broccoli you prepped earlier that afternoon.

It's the perfect amount of food. You are satisfied. You wash your plate, put the food away and begin your nightly routine of winding down for the night. You've changed your clothes, washed your face, brushed your teeth and are crawling into bed.

This isn't a new routine, but it's in a new place. Once your have mentally checked the list of nightly routine, slight uneasiness washes over you.

Isn't this a great place to be? It seems a little picture perfect, doesn't it? A home to come back to, a mom to spend time with, dinner ready when you walk in the door, a nightly routine, a bed to crawl into?


And suddenly, you are smacked with reality.....


You spent the morning watching your beautiful, hilarious, and loving niece. You spent the afternoon rushing to complete errands to ensure you are on time to another of your mother's preliminary appointments before the double mastectomy. Once you arrived home, dinner was already ready and mostly eaten, so you ate alone even though you live with your dad, sister, brother-in-law and that beautiful niece.

You crawl on to your albeit really comfortable makeshift twin sized bed of plywood, pallets and a mattress with a much needed memory foam topper located in your sister's dining room. To your left is a metal and plastic self-assemble closet where you have strategically placed your belongings. You have zero privacy and change your clothes twice a day in the bathroom.

Why? Because you are getting DIVORCED.

Well, this certainly isn't where you thought you be at 27 and the road that got you here isn't the one you thought you would take. So you learned that life rarely works out the way you think it will. And maybe that's just it. You can't just think about it, you have to make an effort and take action.

Maybe this is a great place to be, after all.