The Brat Pack
It's been 17 years since I graduated from high school. I didn't even know that until I ran into a former high school crush at the mall.
There he was pushing a baby stroller with his wife and 2-year-old in tow. And there I was with my husband and two kids myself. When he mentioned how long it had been since he'd seen me (how the hell did he recognize me?), it made me realize that life really does pass before your eyes.
It's so interesting seeing where your friends end up and the path they follow. It is all happening at this age. Take relationships: I have friends getting divorced or already divorced, friends married to the love of their lives, friends still searching for love and those who are getting ready to embark on a family of their own. There isn't a stone left unturned in our demographic.
Regardless of where we are in so many different areas, we are ALL ready to start what I call chapter 2 in our lives. This is the chapter of life that completes us. It defines living to our absolute potential and what we seek to get out of life. It's about making sure that you focus on the things you want to achieve personally. If you took all my friends and combined our experiences we would have the most complete chapter 2 ever, but it doesn't work that way. We have to do our own thing. It's up to each one of us to figure out how to embark on this new chapter and what it's going to entail and how we're going to do it. How many times have we heard you only live once? Too many times, and that's why we must move into chapter 2: it's where we take control.
Our friends can actually be one of our greatest resources for this chapter. A friend of mine recently sent a form to her five healthiest friends to find out everything about their healthy lifestyles - from their top five snacks to the doctors they use etc... The idea was to give her healthy options to draw from outside of her own choices giving her more options. I think this is brilliant strategy.
It was funny last night when the brat pack got together after a few years. One friend just short of being on the pages of Newsweek for a major business breakthrough longs for a partner. While another friend knows practically everything about all 4 million people who live in town. So Miss Social was immediately able to come up with loads of options for Miss Business to get her ball rolling. For me just hanging out with my crew gives me this crazy energy that makes anything possible. Don't let yourself miss a thing!
It's been 17 years since I graduated from high school. I didn't even know that until I ran into a former high school crush at the mall.
There he was pushing a baby stroller with his wife and 2-year-old in tow. And there I was with my husband and two kids myself. When he mentioned how long it had been since he'd seen me (how the hell did he recognize me?), it made me realize that life really does pass before your eyes.
It's so interesting seeing where your friends end up and the path they follow. It is all happening at this age. Take relationships: I have friends getting divorced or already divorced, friends married to the love of their lives, friends still searching for love and those who are getting ready to embark on a family of their own. There isn't a stone left unturned in our demographic.
Regardless of where we are in so many different areas, we are ALL ready to start what I call chapter 2 in our lives. This is the chapter of life that completes us. It defines living to our absolute potential and what we seek to get out of life. It's about making sure that you focus on the things you want to achieve personally. If you took all my friends and combined our experiences we would have the most complete chapter 2 ever, but it doesn't work that way. We have to do our own thing. It's up to each one of us to figure out how to embark on this new chapter and what it's going to entail and how we're going to do it. How many times have we heard you only live once? Too many times, and that's why we must move into chapter 2: it's where we take control.
Our friends can actually be one of our greatest resources for this chapter. A friend of mine recently sent a form to her five healthiest friends to find out everything about their healthy lifestyles - from their top five snacks to the doctors they use etc... The idea was to give her healthy options to draw from outside of her own choices giving her more options. I think this is brilliant strategy.
It was funny last night when the brat pack got together after a few years. One friend just short of being on the pages of Newsweek for a major business breakthrough longs for a partner. While another friend knows practically everything about all 4 million people who live in town. So Miss Social was immediately able to come up with loads of options for Miss Business to get her ball rolling. For me just hanging out with my crew gives me this crazy energy that makes anything possible. Don't let yourself miss a thing!
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