Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Hello Friends!

     This week, as I've been expanding my cupboards and preparing to sell one of the first groups of candles, I have pondered on this shop that I've started. Yesterday, I went out to find extra items to sell (like plates and handles) and I remember stopping in front of the counter and smiling the whole way in to purchasing the items. The clerk noticed, smiled and said, "You happy lately?" I laughed and replied, "I just love what I do. I wouldn't want to do anything else." 

        I spoke with my grandfather (not be relation but because he was like a grandfather to me) who told me about his job in the 40's. He would share stories about his job working as a milkman. He would wake up early in the mornings, case the glass bottles and deliver them house to house. When he would deliver them around 5 in the morning, he would get the chance to speak to the persons being delivered the milk. He would sometimes show up to the next house late because of an intriguing conversation he had spent hours in. Everyone greeted him with a happy smile and oftentimes would offer him a nice hot  breakfast or a quick snack. I had asked why he stayed in that job for so long and never looked for anything else and he said, "When you're doing what you love, it no longer is a job or a chore. It's part of who you are." I wish I had the photo of him in his milkman cart to share with you but it is embedded in my heart forever. I don't want to be remembered as the candle maker lady who loves to antique. I want to be remembered as someone who shared with others her heart's deepest passions and her love for giving a little light into your hearts and home spaces. 

     Now, some of you may be in a different situation than I am. Some of you may have children, some of you may have 2 jobs to support your family and some of you may be single parents trying to make it out on the job market struggling to make it through your career, BUT you have a dream. You have a dream to one day own a home for your family. You have a dream to save up enough money to travel around the world. You have a dream to get through college and payoff some debt that is owed. Some have a dream to own or start a business doing what they love. Whatever your situations, please remember. It isn't impossible, it is achievable. You may lose sleep for all the hard work being put into it, but in time you will thank yourself for not giving up.