Life is about the choices you make ...

When you think about life, it truly is all about the choices you make.  Before you even are able to make decisions, your life is molded by decisions your parents make.  Starts out I think with your name.  Did you ever meet someone and think "yup they look like a Sally" ... or "I never would have thought he was a Bob - he looks like a Greg" ... it's amazing how your name is associated with a personality or a type.  My name - well 9 times out of 10 people think I am of ethnic decent.  They wouldn't imagine that I am just a typical American with typical parents who just happen to have 4 daughters before me so they picked my name out of a book.  My mom wanted to name me Melissa actually, but my dad said he did not want people calling me Missy, soooooooooo Sonya it was.  We've all had the friend who has had a baby and you've gone to see her and she's like "We've decided to name our child Sonic because we LOVE Sonic the hedge hog" and you are thinking "Oh my Lord, please let this child be cute and normal or they are going to be tortured in school!" ... you know you've had this conversation with yourself.  So as I said, our lives are molded and changed by the choices we make and the decisions that people make for us!

Someone should really sit us down when we are young and impressionable and have this discussion with us.  "What do you mean you chose the accordion?  You couldn't have chosen the guitar to learn?"   ... see if someone had this conversation with Johnnie Zibert, perhaps he would have been more like John Mayer.  Choices.

We go through a million different choices in our life.  Who we sit next to in class, our first boyfriend or girlfriend, if we decide to play sports or join the theater.  Some choices have more impact on our lives than others that is for sure.  That is why I am focusing on this today.  I have a lot of choices that I'm making and a lot of decisions being made and it just really made me think.  I have spent a lot of my life making some wrong choices.  I chose to not go to college when I was in High School which has definitely limited me on career choices.  I chose to smoke when I was younger.  I never really made smart food choices that is for sure.  I chose to skip my best friends baby shower because I wanted to spend extra time in Baltimore with my boyfriend.  I could go on and on.  We all make bad choices, but we also make great choices.  I chose to quit smoking about 6 years ago.  I chose to marry my best friend and today I made some great food choices while eating out.

Life is all about choices .... keep making smart ones but learn from the wrong ones and remember that someday soon I may be standing by your baby's crib thinking "O.M.G she named her what?"