Pick me. Choose me. Love me.
So pick me. Choose me. Love me. - Meredith Gray – Grays Anatomy
When you start dating again as a single mom you kinda feel like the nerd standing on the school field waiting, hoping you get picked for one of the teams.
You stand watching as the cool kids get picked first, the pretty ones, the athletic ones. The ones you expect to get picked but then the not so cool ones get picked and you are still there. Now and then the captains will make eye contact with, giving you hope but they pick someone else.
You eventually get used to it and you sit under the tree and learn the beauty of your view, while you wait. You learn patience and you learn to appreciate what you have. And you learn that your happiness doesnt come from being picked first.
Your happiness comes from being picked by the person you chose. The person who wants to pick you, not because you can run the fastest or jump the highest but simply because you are you.
When you are picked and you stand next to the person, whose team you are now part of – the world makes sense and you understand why they were all picked before you. Its not because they were better or prettier – its because you werent ready and its because he made it out to the field late.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am
loved this
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 am
beautiful and true and could have been written for me apart from the single mom part.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
Stunning
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
So true. Love that line from Greys.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 am
Such true words.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
it’s beautiful laura, your descriptions are very vivid it’s heart-warming!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
I love this post…so positive
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 am
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Lovely way to putting it.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 am
*goosebumbs*
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
Allright, allright – I get it! I need to learn patience
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
That line from greys is what so many of us have wished we could have said to the ones that got away.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 am
Beautiful post!
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
a little tear.
very pretty words you wrote. xxx
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
That quote makes me cry every time.
I loved your sms.
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Beautiful.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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November 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Love your last sentence. I try not to compare my dating circumstance to other people. All you can do is be ready when life brings you a person you want to date, and who wants to date you.
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
That was a very sweet post, Laura. Your comparison to being picked for the team was lovely.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Aw. That makes me want to cry. That’s beautiful Laura!!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
How gawjiss is that post!
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Aww
Love it!