Coming Full Circle
So we’ve come full circle.
Some times you have to wander away to find out who you really are.
Some times you have to be a rebel, ditch the rental car and brave the New York City Subway system.
Some times, you have to make changes just to answer the “what ifs” so you won’t have the “I should haves”.
When you find yourself back at where you began, does that mean you failed?
Does that make YOU a failure?
Hell Freakin No!
It doesn’t mean you’re a failure.
It may mean that after living in Maine for a year, you realize you really want to live in NYC.
Doesn’t mean you should have never left NYC, it just means that you’ve found you’d rather live there than in Maine.
It may mean that you’ve found the film director executive assistant gig you took for a year, after being in photography for five years, isn’t what you want to keep doing. You want to get back to the photo industry, be back in production getting your hands dirty, not playing executive ass and sitting behind a desk all day. You don’t regret the gig, you’ve just come to realize you prefer the other way you use to spend your day.
It may mean that when you leave your sweetheart of 6 years to go out and find yourself and still return to him 5 years later and marry him, that you’ve found yourself and know who you are without him and you know he’s what you want.
So this blog and I have come full circle. The baby is back in the header. The one I commissioned two years ago that’s a drawing of my littlest creep when she was 6 months old.
I’m still the mompreneur I was at that time, though I’m no longer working a full time job and moonlighting to start my own biz and taking care of the family. Now it’s just my biz and my family and I work when they’re all sleeping.
But I’ve been around the block a few times in the past two years when it comes to this blog and I know now who I am and who I want to be so I’m pretty damn comfortable telling you I’m a Mompreneur and a mom blogger. I’m back to blogging what I want, whether it be family related or biz related and I don’t feel iffy about it or worried about mixing niches as I worry about mixing drinks.
sidenote: I take Hennessy with Red Bull. That’s it. Ok, sometimes I’ll have tequila,
but I won’t mix drinks, that will just make me barf.
I’ve grown to learn what more I want to do, and damnit, I’m going to do it. And? I’ll kick ass at it too!
Have you come full circle in anything and found that though you’re right back where you started, you’re in a better place?
I just love this post. So glad to be witnessing your transformation.
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Adriana girl, thanks for stopping by! Sometimes ya gotta wander off to find yourself, ya’ know? hugs to you girl!
Vanita Cyril recently posted..Coming Full Circle
It’s all a learning process, isn’t it? Glad you’ve found your true path my friend!
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Life IS a learning process. Every bit of it. From the moment you learn to breathe girl.
Vanita Cyril recently posted..Coming Full Circle
Woohoo! Congrats V! Yep, I’ve been there multiple times with my blog before finally finding my “I LOVE MY BLOGGY!”. Go on with your bad self girlfriend!
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lmao thank you pretty lady!
This is awesome, Vanita! I am so happy that you are where you want to be and that you are blogging on your own terms! I like the baby in the header, so I’m glad she’s back. Oh, and the picture of your little one is to die for!
Jessica recently posted..The Clicking Series – Photography Tips for Beginners
aww thanks my friend. hey! love your new series. your eye for photography is wonderful. so happy for you too!
Good for you for coming full circle and realizing you’re in a better place for it! Personally, I’ve been mixing my business and personal and yes, I’ve had those I-really-shouldn’t-be-doing-this moments, but then I realize if a company is going to work with me, they’re going to work with me. If not, oh well! I’m doing what I love and that’s all that matters
As are you!
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you’re exactly right Kayla! doing what you love IS ALL THAT MATTERS!!! now when are you going to let me move that spectacular blog off BLogger?
Soon I hope!
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Wow how I love this post. And, yes, my whole life has been figuring things out by coming full circle. Makes me dizzy sometimes, but it’s always worth it for what you learn.
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anything you can learn from girl is good! whether it was hard, easy or made you dizzy lol
Vanita recently posted..Coming Full Circle
Coming full circle is a like practicing a skill until you get it just right. There is nothing wrong with it. We learn by doing, making mistakes and trying again. Good for you for getting up to try again. That is what life is all about.
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you are certainly right mama! if all we do is follow and never step out of the norm to try, well then, we’re just a bunch of zombies looking for a boring time
Vanita recently posted..Growing Dreams Into Reality
It’s never a bad experience as long as it’s a learning experience. A not so wise friend of mine came up with that one wise statement to me a long time ago and I reflect on it often when things become a challenge. You’ve gotta get out there and sample from all the different buffet stations sometimes to fully appreciate your original and true love for the simplicity of a bowl of Cheerios. Lovely post my friend.
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Molly is that you girl? Well hot damn! it’s been a long time. thanks so much for leaving your comment. this is wonderful advise and i agree and appreciate it! Hugs to you girl and happy father’s day to hubby!
Vanita recently posted..Growing Dreams Into Reality
I always say that there’s nothing wrong with coming home — after you’ve seen more of the world than just your bedroom. Heck, we did. We never expected to be back in Iowa after grad school and here we are — right back where we started. I felt stifled at first, but now I wouldn’t have it any other way!
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you are absolutely right sistah! sometimes you need to grow by doing other things before you can fit your role. thanks so much for dropping by.
I grew up in the country with a Shaker Village down the road so we sang a lot of shaker songs growing up. This post reminds me of one of my favorites.
‘Tis the gift to be simple,
‘Tis the gift to be free,
‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend, we will not be ashamed
To turn, turn, will be our delight,
‘Til by turning, turning, we come round right.
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Emiy, thank you for sharing this. I gotta tell you, i hopped over to your blog and as i scrolled through, i caught myself smiling. i just love it. thank you for connecting!
Thanks for the thanks!
I’m a newbie in the blog world so I also appreciated your freshman blogger post – definitely feels like high school sometimes – but now I’ve got big-girl undies that I feel more confident in.