Live It Your Way!!

Life is hard enough...without trying to live it on other people's terms.  All my life there have been people who thought they had the right to tell me how I should live my life.  "You should do this."  "You shouldn't do that."  "You should think this, but not that."

No one has the right to make you live their way...unless you're a child who is still learning right from wrong and left from right.

Once you've grown up, then you should be able to make decisions on how you want to live your life.  After all, you will have to live with the consequences. 

I know that sometimes I've been a disappointment to my parents.  I never followed their beat or their path or their dream. I was always content to create my own.

Since my philosphy includes living a life with no regrets, I've always tried to follow my heart and my head.  I haven't broken any rules, but I have bent quite a few. 

Compromise is not a four letter word!

Love.  It is a choice.  It is a way of life.  It is a hard road to travel sometimes.  On the best days, it is easy and fun and wonderful.  On the worst, well, you have to work at it.  We are all different.  Opposites attract.  The key is compromise.  It can't always be my way, and it can't always be his.  Sometimes, we have to make "our" way.  He gives; I give.  Sometimes, I give more and sometimes, he has to give more.  In my younger days, well, I used to say, "It's my way or the highway!"  I remember feeling that if I gave an inch, then I would continue to give in, and I'd wind up losing all together.  As I've grown older, I've discovered that in a true compromise, there are no losers.  When we get along, we all win.  I've realized that a relationship is worth only what we each put into it.  It's only as hard as you make it.