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What is a Rock?
Where is yours?
What is a Rock?
Everyone should have one.
I feel blessed to have mine.
Where is yours?
Life is hard. It's full of crap. Bills. There's bad grades. Fires. Game losses. Extra weight. Evictions. Divorce. Teasing. Pimples. Feelings get hurt all the time. Sickness. Death. We all get embarrassed.
But if you have your Rock... it's okay.
I met mine a long time ago. Didn't know it at the time of course. From the first minute... just a quiet strength from the man. Soft, kind, good. Not perfect. Far from perfect, he was an occasional barker. But who is perfect? Rocks aren't. For some reason, however, when life was (seemingly) falling apart... this person somehow had this effortless way to put it back together. It was his demeanor during "crisis," his knowledge, his ability to handle things, his way to calm me, maybe it was even the fact that he could deal and lead me in exactly the right way.
Example. Just this very morning I had a bad work deal go completely south. AKA: I got screwed. He was upset too. Yet he found the words, to calm me down, to explain, to assure me everything will be alright and by doing that... he makes it great again.
Where do Rocks come from? I have no idea. I think some people are just born that way. Something inside of them makes them strong, sturdy, assured. Then, at least according to BP (that's the husband, aka: my Rock), I stepped into his life and made him even stronger. He says, that me being by his side gave him the ability to do things better. Again, his words not mine, he could BE better.
So maybe, even though he is MY Rock, I'm HIS Rock right back.
Wouldn't that just be ideal? You may feel weak, but they see you as strong. Where you fall, they catch. Your cracks are filled with their crevices.
Sigh.
Turns out, as I learned today, sometimes people don't want to find their Rocks. Or at least that's what they portray to the world. It never really occurred to me that some would just prefer to wander aimlessly from lame relationship to the next broken one. I was talking to a friend of mine, who happens to be on Match and Vine and Swipe Right.com... or whatever it's called. Sorry, I know not the websites. Anyhow, she has bumped into many a men who are far from looking for something that makes them better. Instead, they're looking for Mr./Ms. Tonight. Stunning to live like that. Simply because I guess they don't know, when you find your Rock, it's no longer what you're capable of doing today... it's more about what you can do forever.
Your Rock makes anything possible.
But maybe some people are just invested more in the now than the always. Or they're afraid of losing their Rock once they find it. That, is a real fear. It can be devastatingly tragic of course. But having it and losing it, is certainly better than never having it at all. Nothing is forever in this life. No matter how tight you close your eyes and wish it. But you are now both better off for having it during that time.
If you're wondering, no one knows when, where or how you'll meet your Rock. Of course, it's not on your schedule, that's for sure. Maybe you're ready but your Rock isn't. Or vice versa. Of course, it's typically when you least expect it. The day you're sick at the doctor. On a golf course. The time you trip in front of twenty people. In the middle of a yoga class. For me, it happened during Cheerleading practice. I met my Rock about 20 years ago. He asked me to a dance (pictured below).
This week, decades later, is our Wedding Anniversary. No big, significant one. Just another year. What am I getting him? Nothing. Everything. Does it matter? No. Yes. Of course! Not. What does matter is what he gives me, what we hopefully give each other, everyday. Of every year. And every moment in between. There are fights. Here and there. I don't always like him but I do always love him. I admire him. Yep, he's way too good at too many things. That's kind of annoying by the way.
With my Rock, I feel stronger than the first woman who climbed Mt. Everest. I am happier than the person who invented Spanx. I am more proud than the First Lady. I'm luckier than a Lotto Winner. Because I have my very own Rock.
My hope... is that you do too.
But if you have your Rock... it's okay.
I met mine a long time ago. Didn't know it at the time of course. From the first minute... just a quiet strength from the man. Soft, kind, good. Not perfect. Far from perfect, he was an occasional barker. But who is perfect? Rocks aren't. For some reason, however, when life was (seemingly) falling apart... this person somehow had this effortless way to put it back together. It was his demeanor during "crisis," his knowledge, his ability to handle things, his way to calm me, maybe it was even the fact that he could deal and lead me in exactly the right way.
Example. Just this very morning I had a bad work deal go completely south. AKA: I got screwed. He was upset too. Yet he found the words, to calm me down, to explain, to assure me everything will be alright and by doing that... he makes it great again.
Where do Rocks come from? I have no idea. I think some people are just born that way. Something inside of them makes them strong, sturdy, assured. Then, at least according to BP (that's the husband, aka: my Rock), I stepped into his life and made him even stronger. He says, that me being by his side gave him the ability to do things better. Again, his words not mine, he could BE better.
So maybe, even though he is MY Rock, I'm HIS Rock right back.
Wouldn't that just be ideal? You may feel weak, but they see you as strong. Where you fall, they catch. Your cracks are filled with their crevices.
Sigh.
Turns out, as I learned today, sometimes people don't want to find their Rocks. Or at least that's what they portray to the world. It never really occurred to me that some would just prefer to wander aimlessly from lame relationship to the next broken one. I was talking to a friend of mine, who happens to be on Match and Vine and Swipe Right.com... or whatever it's called. Sorry, I know not the websites. Anyhow, she has bumped into many a men who are far from looking for something that makes them better. Instead, they're looking for Mr./Ms. Tonight. Stunning to live like that. Simply because I guess they don't know, when you find your Rock, it's no longer what you're capable of doing today... it's more about what you can do forever.
Your Rock makes anything possible.
But maybe some people are just invested more in the now than the always. Or they're afraid of losing their Rock once they find it. That, is a real fear. It can be devastatingly tragic of course. But having it and losing it, is certainly better than never having it at all. Nothing is forever in this life. No matter how tight you close your eyes and wish it. But you are now both better off for having it during that time.
If you're wondering, no one knows when, where or how you'll meet your Rock. Of course, it's not on your schedule, that's for sure. Maybe you're ready but your Rock isn't. Or vice versa. Of course, it's typically when you least expect it. The day you're sick at the doctor. On a golf course. The time you trip in front of twenty people. In the middle of a yoga class. For me, it happened during Cheerleading practice. I met my Rock about 20 years ago. He asked me to a dance (pictured below).
This week, decades later, is our Wedding Anniversary. No big, significant one. Just another year. What am I getting him? Nothing. Everything. Does it matter? No. Yes. Of course! Not. What does matter is what he gives me, what we hopefully give each other, everyday. Of every year. And every moment in between. There are fights. Here and there. I don't always like him but I do always love him. I admire him. Yep, he's way too good at too many things. That's kind of annoying by the way.
With my Rock, I feel stronger than the first woman who climbed Mt. Everest. I am happier than the person who invented Spanx. I am more proud than the First Lady. I'm luckier than a Lotto Winner. Because I have my very own Rock.
My hope... is that you do too.
