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Yesterday my worst parenting nightmare came true. I would really prefer not to have the experience that I’ve had yesterday but it made me think about life actually.
Yesterday my 16-months old babies were playing in their room. We were getting ready for a big trip to the grocery store (they usually like riding in shopping carts and that’s a big deal for them). Suddenly my husband and I heard very loud coughing followed by screaming and crying. Our first thought was that one of the girls was choking on something and she could not breathe. Needless to say that our hearts sank and we ran as fast as we could into the baby room. By the time we got there everybody was crying and that was a good sign, it meant that both of our girls were breathing.
I don’t want to gross you out but even while I am writing this paragraph I feel nauseated a little bit. My feelings of horror changed with feelings of disgust when I found out what happened. One of my girls pooped in her diaper and somehow the poop started coming out of it. My second little one decided to “play” with it and put it in her mouth… You can probably guess that by the time she put her hands in her mouth her gag reflex made her throw up and she started screaming.
It took us some time to calm the girls down, clean them and clean the room but I think that all four of us learned a very important lesson that day which is: “Don’t eat crap in life.” My girls have to understand this lesson literally but a lot of adults have to get it metaphorically. I know it sounds like common sense but for some reason a lot of time we still find ourselves covered in … well… poop.
It happened to me quite a few times in life. I know that something does not smell right and probably I should not be doing this but I still do it … and the result is pretty pitiful. Most of the time our intuition tells us that we should not be doing something and often this intuition comes in the image of friends and relatives. Curiosity might be the leading power of progress but it can be the main component of disaster too. Logical thinking (and babies don’t have it yet unfortunately) is what lets us make the right choices in life and do not follow raw emotions.
This whole situation made me think about a few incidents in my life when I just wanted to disappear; I just wanted to become indivisible because I had so much POOP on me. My husband and I actually had a lot of fun thinking about the situations when we were covered in crap and when we could have avoided it just by thinking a little bit.
Here is one from my life. When I was a teenager I started smoking because my boyfriend and a lot of my friends were smoking. Then I had a few personal problems that made me smoke even more (I can’t believe I was that stupid then!) So one afternoon I felt miserable because my life was going nowhere (and I knew that at 19, ha-ha!), my heart was broken and there was nothing to live for in general. I decided that the only thing that could save me would be a cigarette and I just had to smoke on the back porch. So here I am, smoking behind a plant, making sure that there are no neighbors around who would tell on me and thinking about my horrible life. The cigarette is definitely making me feel even worse but I keep smoking and complaining. Then I go inside the house and realize that my grandmother came home and had been watching me the whole time. Man, I can’t tell how bad I felt when she noticed that cigarette smell (when my grandma is angry she is scarier than Leather Face from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre). When she starting ripping into me (no pun intended)I just wanted to crawl in a hole somewhere and disappear (and the whole next week too). But I really needed that wake-up call, somebody had to tell me finally that I was wading in poop (and smoking is poop from my point of view now). The lesson learned is: smoking = stinks = crap all over me = bad experience.
There are plenty of other examples around us. I think about every month you hear about an influential politician caught up in some cheating scandal. And why? They seem to have power, money, everything and they lose it all simply because they have decided to eat some poop. And these are the people who are supposed to be smart and control our lives.
Another good example is all the people out there who are sunk up in credit card debt. Can most of them even remember what they bought in order to get that much in debt? Most likely they don’t. But whatever it was, they just had to get it at the time and deep down knew that it probably wasn’t the best idea. And again they are now covered in financial poop.
Most people at some time or another (me too) have gotten themselves in messes by doing something that they know they shouldn’t be. And time and time again the results are the same. When you start thinking about it you find so many situations when we or people around us are covered in poop and unfortunately most of these situations are not amusing at all.
I hope that my funny-smelling incident with my children made you laugh a little bit and also made you rethink your decision making in life. It’s so important to THINK before you do something and not follow your raw emotions or curiosity. If you are not sure – ask somebody else for an opinion, think about it and ask your inner gut “Is it the right thing to do?” Being a little bit too cautious is much better than being covered in poop from my point of view.
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Yesterday my worst parenting nightmare came true. I would really prefer not to have the experience that I’ve had yesterday but it made me think about life actually.
Yesterday my 16-months old babies were playing in their room. We were getting ready for a big trip to the grocery store (they usually like riding in shopping carts and that’s a big deal for them). Suddenly my husband and I heard very loud coughing followed by screaming and crying. Our first thought was that one of the girls was choking on something and she could not breathe. Needless to say that our hearts sank and we ran as fast as we could into the baby room. By the time we got there everybody was crying and that was a good sign, it meant that both of our girls were breathing.
I don’t want to gross you out but even while I am writing this paragraph I feel nauseated a little bit. My feelings of horror changed with feelings of disgust when I found out what happened. One of my girls pooped in her diaper and somehow the poop started coming out of it. My second little one decided to “play” with it and put it in her mouth… You can probably guess that by the time she put her hands in her mouth her gag reflex made her throw up and she started screaming.
It took us some time to calm the girls down, clean them and clean the room but I think that all four of us learned a very important lesson that day which is: “Don’t eat crap in life.” My girls have to understand this lesson literally but a lot of adults have to get it metaphorically. I know it sounds like common sense but for some reason a lot of time we still find ourselves covered in … well… poop.
It happened to me quite a few times in life. I know that something does not smell right and probably I should not be doing this but I still do it … and the result is pretty pitiful. Most of the time our intuition tells us that we should not be doing something and often this intuition comes in the image of friends and relatives. Curiosity might be the leading power of progress but it can be the main component of disaster too. Logical thinking (and babies don’t have it yet unfortunately) is what lets us make the right choices in life and do not follow raw emotions.
This whole situation made me think about a few incidents in my life when I just wanted to disappear; I just wanted to become indivisible because I had so much POOP on me. My husband and I actually had a lot of fun thinking about the situations when we were covered in crap and when we could have avoided it just by thinking a little bit.
Here is one from my life. When I was a teenager I started smoking because my boyfriend and a lot of my friends were smoking. Then I had a few personal problems that made me smoke even more (I can’t believe I was that stupid then!) So one afternoon I felt miserable because my life was going nowhere (and I knew that at 19, ha-ha!), my heart was broken and there was nothing to live for in general. I decided that the only thing that could save me would be a cigarette and I just had to smoke on the back porch. So here I am, smoking behind a plant, making sure that there are no neighbors around who would tell on me and thinking about my horrible life. The cigarette is definitely making me feel even worse but I keep smoking and complaining. Then I go inside the house and realize that my grandmother came home and had been watching me the whole time. Man, I can’t tell how bad I felt when she noticed that cigarette smell (when my grandma is angry she is scarier than Leather Face from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre). When she starting ripping into me (no pun intended)I just wanted to crawl in a hole somewhere and disappear (and the whole next week too). But I really needed that wake-up call, somebody had to tell me finally that I was wading in poop (and smoking is poop from my point of view now). The lesson learned is: smoking = stinks = crap all over me = bad experience.
There are plenty of other examples around us. I think about every month you hear about an influential politician caught up in some cheating scandal. And why? They seem to have power, money, everything and they lose it all simply because they have decided to eat some poop. And these are the people who are supposed to be smart and control our lives.
Another good example is all the people out there who are sunk up in credit card debt. Can most of them even remember what they bought in order to get that much in debt? Most likely they don’t. But whatever it was, they just had to get it at the time and deep down knew that it probably wasn’t the best idea. And again they are now covered in financial poop.
Most people at some time or another (me too) have gotten themselves in messes by doing something that they know they shouldn’t be. And time and time again the results are the same. When you start thinking about it you find so many situations when we or people around us are covered in poop and unfortunately most of these situations are not amusing at all.
I hope that my funny-smelling incident with my children made you laugh a little bit and also made you rethink your decision making in life. It’s so important to THINK before you do something and not follow your raw emotions or curiosity. If you are not sure – ask somebody else for an opinion, think about it and ask your inner gut “Is it the right thing to do?” Being a little bit too cautious is much better than being covered in poop from my point of view.
Keep it balanced!
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