Running From My Mistakes

One of the glorious parts of being a Military Wife is running from your mistakes.....just kidding. 

It's not that I want to run from my mistakes.  I've faced every one of them...maybe not immediately but eventually.  I have nothing to run from now, just frequent reminders.  Everyone makes mistakes.  You hurt people, you abuse people, you accidentally upset someone, you grow away from people, you get hurt by someone....anything.  When you're a Military Wife, you get multiple fresh starts.  Almost like a "reset" button but not quite.  Each move gets you away from where you were and the constant reminders of how so not perfect you are.  You can't go back and fix anything but you can learn a lesson from everything that happened to you previously. You learn what scene you should be mingled with and who not to associate with.  Hopefully, you avoid those types of people all together. You learn who your true friends were, your oak trees if you will, ...if you counted to them, and they to you, you keep in contact.  If not, they were a toadstool....there when you needed them and gone when your need in life was over.  Not that they aren't important but there wasn't quite enough in common or ample time spent to sustain a long term friendship.

Each move presents you with a flurry of new opportunities.  Things you would have never been able to do if you were secluded to one place your entire life.  You're going to look back on your life and you won't believe how colorful it is with everything you were able to do, accomplish, and experience.  The people you knew and associated with brighten those colors with unbelievable vividity. (I don't think "vividity" is a word but I like it.) 

Although I'm going to miss everyone here so much, and I'm going to long for Washington every day of my life, I'm ready to embrace my move.  I look forward to new friends and new challenges.  I look forward to less frequent reminders of who I was and start looking toward who I know I am inside...A Strong Wife of a Soldier and Awesome Mommy to My Kids!