Here's a touchy one and something I am dealing with on a day to day basis. I "Freedom from foolishness" am judgmental. But hear me out- I have a pet peeve for people who aren't doing their best. For people who make excuses as to why they can't succeed. Why they can't go back to school. Why they are staying at a job they hate. Why they stopped looking for a job. Why they are trapped in their foolishness. Just plain ole' excuses. Excuses make me sick to my CORE. But what's something that's even worse than excuses? Being complacent. Those are the people that don't even care to make excuses. They just live their life day to day being mediocre and have no excuse or reason as to why they aren't striving to be excellent. They don't have the desire to succeed either. Now these complacent people can work at McDonald's or on Wall Street. Blue or White collared. If for years you have been in the same position in life Financially, Physically or Mentally- there's something wrong.
But I was here before. This same place years ago. The judgmental place. I use to see young women and teenagers pushing strollers, carrying children, looking exhausted. It was a "Pet peeve" of mine. I will admit that I use to shake my head at them. I was so PROUD that I was not a young mother. That I didn't have a child out of wedlock. Fast forward and I was in the same situation. A depressed young mother with a child out of wedlock. What I couldn't see was that the child that I was ashamed to have became the driving force for me wanting to succeed. For me to stop making excuses. For me to stop sleeping my life away. For me to never become complacent.
So who am I to tell people how to live their life? No, I would not want anyone to be complacent in their life. No, I would not want anyone to be a young single mother (or father!). But I'm learning that not everyone has a great why. Not everyone has been kicked to the ground with no other place to go but up. I believe that passion and motivation is from above. From God himself. Some people are born with motivation and others need it forced out of them. That's why it is so important to remember who I use to be. Before the money. Before the degrees. Before the sanity and sense of peace. Then I will remember that I am no different than the rest.
"When PRIDE comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom" - Proverbs 11:2
