D.D. and The Search For Balance
The toughest part about life, whether you are a kid or an adult, is figuring out how to create a balance between the things you have to do, and the things you want to do. Mostly because what gets mixed up in there are things you think you should do. It can be brutally hard to separate the things you have to do from the things you think you should do. Knowing what you want to do is generally pretty easy, but you may not get to them because of all the things you have to do and think you have to do get in the way. For example, I want to write my own blog, knit a cable knit hood and start a modest crafting business. I also want to play video games, take long naps, construct the coolest container garden any one in this apartment complex has ever seen and continue to advance at my day job at the Corner of Happy & Healthy. I want to raise my daughter to be courageous, compassionate, strong, generous and independent. The things I have to do are pay the bills, clean the...