(warning, sort of a rant/strand of run-on sentences ahead) So the show 'Girl Code' got me thinking... about many things really, because it's awesomely hilarious, but one that popped into my head stuck with me. I think we (women) have a lot of pressure riding on us holding our shit together. I sit here and I'm watching this show, which I haven't done in a while.. like actually sat down and watched TV at this hour during the week because usually I'm running to the gym or to meet someone for dinner or cooking meals for the next day (which i really should be doing in this case btw)... but when I don't give myself days to slow down and just chill, I get too wound up. So anyway here I am just vegging out, sitting and watching TV, (not even having a glass of wine mind you!!) and I'm thinking ... There are times I feel so exhausted and busy and my life feels pretty full most times and I realize there are women that do what i do, and have a husband, and 2 kids, and maybe even a friggin dog, and etc etc and they have to cook dinner and on and on... and it's like jimminy cricket people! When does it end? I'm not trying to be sexist at all, even though this will sound that way, but to be a home maker/mom and be awesome at that is one thing, (and admirable too, i will add) and then to do the working full time thing and having a social life and all the other day to day keeping fit, etc. is another thing that takes arguably equal effort or is just as exhuasting... and then there's the feeling for women who try to do both...!! There is some sort of a stigma in place, that I too am a victim of, that makes me feel inferior if I'm not doing it all and doing it well and always on top of my game. I mean, I dont have a husband and kids and all that, I just have my one job that consists of my 12 hour week days with this long commute and then I have my week nights where I try to always be working out and or be social enough to go on a date for goodness sake, and etc. but there's always like this cloud that hangs over my head with a voice saying, "hey you should probably be cooking your dinner//lunch for the next couple days and doing this plus a b & c... and if you can't handle that then you suck girrrrrrrllllll" ya the voice in my head often adds twang and exaggerative syllables...
Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that women are awesome. I may be a bit biased since I am one but I just think we pull off way more than men or at least we're kind of expected to without flinching(unofficially)--and we do pull it off because we're awesome but we also all need to give ourselves a little more credit sometimes. It's okay to take a moment or two off from doing wonder woman-like things every now and then!
Cheers girls!!
Photo of the day:
Although this is a MAN and I just went on about girls and women...it still represents strength and beauty and confidence to me so it seems fitting. This guy is like the leader of the germans in Chicago... or something important, I may be way off, but he (as most statues do) just seems so strong and confident and sure of where his life is going doesn't he? I think maybe we could all follow in this guys footsteps in some way... haha but maybe not by letting a giant bird come perch on your knee.
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