Choosing to LIVE (guest post).
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
Myra is a single mother of a twelve and a half year old beautiful girl.
A teacher, a daughter, trying to have a sense of humor, fighting to be fit, kettlebell loving, MizFit wannabe.
Maybe I’ll get up the courage to have my own blog after this! (MizFit note: I CHOOSE yes.)
Choose Life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the choices we make.
I don’t know whether it’s the change of seasons. (cue sad bye bye to summer music)
Or my milestone BIG birthday that I threatened to celebrate but let pass by unnoticed(not by me)
But I find myself finally ready to act on a commitment that should have been made years ago.
Today I decided to CHOOSE LIFE.
That may seem so obvious, but life is complicated and messy, and choosing is so hard. You want to make the right decision, of course to please everyone. What to choose? I know for me decision making is sometimes so hard, I just let it go.
Sadly enough, a lot of time has passed, but now I’m ready to choose.
Back in the day…..waaay back….remember a group called Wham!? You know, before George Michael was George Michael and he was just cute? (I told you I just had a big birthday)
Well, I digress.
George Michael and the other guy wore Tshirts in their video that said Choose Life. I thought about it then, and then put it away.
As you well know, sh—stuff happens. I got married…got fit….lost Dad…..lost husband….adopted daughter….
In choosing to forge ahead, I lost myself. I was fit, almost certified as a trainer.
I chose what I thought was best.
Fast forward to 2009. Many good choices, Many, many bad choices.
Good Choice: my beautiful daughter and I joined a gym together. As I fumble to untangle the earphones, she calls from across the room to show how she is already running up a steep incline like Jillian said to on “The Biggest Loser”.
Bad Choice: changed my eating without changing portion size = no weight loss= frustration
Bad choice: cluttered apartment, missed doctors appointments etc, etc, and so on.
Somehow, today is the day I know I’ve made a good choice.
I’m Choosing Life.
For me. Not for my mother. She needs me, but won’t have me if I don’t choose life.
Not for my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah. I thought I could choose a goal like looking great at her Bat Mitzvah. That didn’t seem to be the motivator I thought it would be.
Today, I’m choosing life.
For me. So I can be there for my mother. So I can watch my beautiful daughter run and jump and laugh.
I know what to do. I think we all know what to do. We just have to choose.
Lovely post. Life is all about the choices we make.
Excellent post!
AMEN. What a beautiful post. Thank you for reminding us. It’s what we should all be choosing.
Great post and great points
Choices…great post. Looking back on past choices can sure bring me down. But each day brings a new chance to do better, and I am determined to change my future.
And choose life. Sounds like you are too!
Thank you Myra…and MizFit
I know that’s what I love about the post too.
We are always moments away from getting back on track by making a new and different choice.
It’s so uplifting for me (and something I employ frequently with mamahood as well)
lovely post
just happened to watch this week’s biggest loser and the woman that had lost her whole family was talking about stepping back into life.
life, stepping forward, a positive response.
Yes I remember cute George Michael in the Choose Life T-Shirt…Are we thinking about the same Big Birthday?
Great post!
Great post! I put this quote on my blog today from a contestant from the biggest loser that had lost her husband & child in a car crash: “You can choose differently. Today is your second chance!”
We all can learn from the ability to choose life!
Very Nice!!
Choose life was one of my main mantras in medical school! Helped me get through that gauntlet.
Excellent post.
There are no bad choices….just lessons. Once you learn the lesson, you start making more positive choices…
Great Post, Fitness and health are the goal, life is the prize.
Great post!!! My big 40 was my turning point too. Choose Life!!!! I like it. Go go go!!!
Lovely. Sometimes we THINK we’re doing the “right” thing, but then it takes us a little trial and error to sort it out!
I like this also. It goes right along with what I say about ‘for the rest of my life.’
Choose life! Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest, because we stop seeing the forest for the trees. Congratulations on your bravery and determination in the face of daunting challenges!
Excellent Post! I’m with you on this!!
Try saying it out loud;it’s very powerful!!
“I CHOOSE LIFE!”
Cheers – Nikki
Wonderful post. And may I say -quietly- that I don’t think when “Wham” was popular was THAT long ago. But then I remember when the Beatles first hit the world, so maybe it’s all in our perspective.
Today, I too choose Life.
Thanks everybody….Dawn…I wish I knew this stuff when I hit the big 4-0 !
Thanks Miz..ur so cool.
Choose Life…a better mantra than that other 80′s Tshirt about Frankie and Relax and whatever. But, they could go together too, right?
Really enjoyed this post and what a great reminder! It’s never too late to choose.
How refreshing. I know I have a bad habit of not choosing so I don’t have to feel bad that I made the wrong choice. I’m taking steps to reverse that personality trait but it’s hard. Choosing anything comes with a risk – but it’s not much of a life if you just meander through it without picking a direction.
Hey, I thought it was pretty cool to! Here is the site!
http://wigflip.com/superstickies/
Have fun!
Great post and I admire the courage and clarity but you need to add one more important reason besides your Mother and daughter-YOURSELF- the most important reason
LOVE this post.
- Lisa
http://inweighovermyhead.blogspot.com/
This resonates with me right now, as I’m working to make the same choice. To live, for all the right reasons, rather than to coast through life for all the wrong ones…
Beautiful post. And good choice!
(And hey, I loved Wham!. I mean, loved them, loved them. You’re definitely not old, because that would mean I am, and I’m not having any of that!)
V.
George Michael is also a great singer and was quite famous in the 80′s era.”~`
George Michael made some scandals a couple of years ago but i love his music:*;
george michael is an scandalous gay music artist but i still admire his talent of singing”"”
i can say that George Michael is nice guy, he is really a very talented guy ~-.