Hey Jealousy....

This past Saturday morning, I made my married friends jealous!  Imagine that?  Here, we singletons (as Bridget Jones would name us) are always jealous of our married counterparts, and there actually are things about my life that makes them jealous!

As I shared in my previous post, I have rekindled my love for reading.  So when I woke up early on a Saturday morning I couldn't really fall back asleep, but I wasn't interested in getting up just yet either....so I picked up the current novel I was reading  ("A Thousand Tomorrows" by Karen Kingsbury) and started to read.  Two hours later I had finished the book, had a good cry with the characters, and was ready to finally leave the comfort of my bed.

I went downstairs to make my morning cup of Joe and fired up the computer.  I reflected in my Facebook status just how lovely it was to spend the morning reading in bed and went on with my daily rituals in the cyber world.  Shortly after, I went back to Facebook to read the comments on my status.  I laughed when 2 of my girlfriends with small children commented that they were jealous of me.  YOU are jealous of ME?  These two women are two of the best mom's out there (behind my own mother of course) and although they love their husbands and children dearly, they would love to get caught up in a novel for a few hours on a Saturday morning. 

And that got me to thinking...no vocation is perfect.  There is truth in the statement, "The grass is always greener on the other side."  And if that is true, there must be benefits to being single.  Not only can I read in bed on a Saturday morning uninterrupted, but I can also choose what channels I want to watch on the TV, and I can go lolly-gag through Target without worrying if I need to get home and get dinner on the table.  So I've decided (as said before) to change my mindset.  Instead of living my current single life like the Josh Turner song, "If you're going through hell, keep on going....." and instead to stop and smell the roses in this world of singledom.  And you know what?  The result is much sweeter than the bitter taste I've had in my mouth for the last few years.

So get out there everyone and smell the roses today....wherever you are, whatever you are doing...experience the joy of today! :)