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Wishing You Were In Her Shoes
© 2007 Heart Tones
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friend called me with good news, all excited about how her life was going. She had gotten a great new job, had just closed on her dream house and was celebrating fifteen years of marriage with the love of her life.
A friend called me with good news, all excited about how her life was going. She had gotten a great new job, had just closed on her dream house and was celebrating fifteen years of marriage with the love of her life.
I admit—I felt a thunderous bolt of jealousy strike! The thought, “I wish I were you...” was quickly replaced when my mind went to another friend who had just lost a battle to cancer. She seemed to have everything too—a wonderful spouse, healthy children and a beautiful home—but she was gone and that thought made me realize how futile it is to wish being in another woman’s shoes.
Life has highs and lows for us all. No one stays in either sphere forever and what we may think is heaven in another woman’s life may very well be a hell storm for her. Looking from the outside is no indicator of what quality of life she really has.
Later when I spoke to that friend with the good news, she told me that she wished she could be me because I had brothers and a sister and she, being an only child, never experienced the joy of having siblings!
We all seem to long for some things others may have, but we all have some things others do not. Wishing you were in her shoes won’t make it so. Being grateful for what is yours and has come your way is a much better alternative. Besides, her shoe size may fit a bit too tight on you anyway!
Gloria Thomas Anderson, MSW
Author/Speaker/Facilitator
Inspiring hearts. Encouraging souls.
www.hearttones.com
© 2006 Heart Tones
© 2007 Gloria Thomas Anderson
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