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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
What Would YOU Do?
Have you ever read the children's story "Fanny's Dream"? If you haven't, let me summarize. Fanny is a young woman in Wyoming who decides that the story of Cinderella is true. She decides that she wants to go to the ball at the mayor's house and marry someone important. She prepares herself then goes out to wait for her fairy godmother. Needless to say her fairy godmother doesn't show up that night, but her admirerer, Heber Jensen, does. He asks her to marry him and help complete HIS dreams. After an hour of deliberating, she shakes Heber awake and says "yes." So Fanny marries Heber and starts her life with him. Years later Fanny goes out into the garden to get a watermelon, and who should appear but her fairy godmother! The fairy godmother tells her there is still time to make her dreams come true and that she'll fix everything. Fanny, however has realized that the life she HAS is the life she wants and tells the fairy godmother she'd rather not go to the ball. So, my question to you is this: If you had the chance to redo it all, would you? I ask you, as the fairy godmother asked Fanny: "Do you want to go to the ball, or not?"
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That's a tough question. I don't think I would re-do.
There's so much I would want to change that I might risk it hoping that I still end up similar to where I am now (at least with the same guy).
depends...is there a house and dental plan with that ball?
I'd be asking questions...LOL
I'd definitely have questions too...there are some things that I'd LOVE to redo, but as I look back, had things not happened the way they did, I don't know that I'd be the way I am now because I wouldn't have learned the same lessons.
As much as I would like to avoid things that have happened in my life I would not go back and change anything. Those experienced made me who I am today and have helped me face many challenges that have come and will help in the future I am sure.
Now, may not be the time to ask that, question. My kids are being kids and fighting. I too am grateful for the challenges that I have been given, but if choosing to go to the ball is really the way I am suppose to go that could be the question. I'd have to pray about it. To see if that is the road for me to take.
First of all, LOVE that book! I thought it had the sweetest ending! Like everyone else before, I agree. Didn't love some of the terrible experiences I had, but I wouldn't change Andy or Jesse for anything! And of course, me GREAT friends :)
I know I am really slow to comment, but let it be known, given the chance to choose a different life, I would choose the one I have got.
Staying single long enough to serve a mission, turning away a good man and R.M. who wanted to marry me, choosing Anthony, when I really did have a few other options, being married only 9 mo. 10 days when I become a mom, nursing that child till the day I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder - he was 7 1/2 months old. Bringing twins into the world after going without bipolar meds for the entire pregnancy, going back on them after they were born which meant I could not nurse them... Living in tiny little basement apartments for the first 5 1/2 years of our married lives, quiting my elem ed. student teaching to go back to being a full-time mommy again (after missing Monkey's first crawl on my 1st day of it- I only lasted 4 till I had my decision made...
ALL of it. I would not change a thing.
There is no way I could do it better on purpose than the Lord has done with a much higher purpose.
Thanks for getting me thinking, Shelly. Now I am going to go paste this into my own journal. :)
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