10/17/2025
This is not a personal page but after surprised us during breast cancer awareness month and took my Daddy Tuesday, I decided that I am going to share. I’m starting here. The last 1.5 weeks have been like watching one of those religious movies when you expect to deliver a miracle and He doesn’t and the movie ends and you leave the theatre mad. The last two years have been equally unbelievably not the best.
However, every day I wake up, I’m thankful for a new day and a new opportunity to try again, to overcome, to smile and to help someone else do the same. I realize that if I focus on someone else, I don’t have as much time to think about myself. Less time to think about vengeance and retribution and retaliation. More time to realize how many more people wish they were in my position even though it’s difficult too.
Nothing is good OR BAD unless you have something to compare it to.
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with this amplified strength through adversity or the extended family members and utter strangers that have tucked me under their wings and reminded me regularly to shake it off, and you can do it, and suck it up, and forget about the past…but I’m appreciative of the concern and determined to figure it out.
I will start by sharing. Feel free to message me because I want anyone who reads this to know that if you’re going through something you’re not alone and if it’s challenges with marital, financial, legal, spiritual, or regarding a health journey or a loss to death… I’ll message you back encouragement because I know about all of those things. They’re fresh on my mind during the past two years.
In the meantime, please pray for my family, especially my Mommy because my Daddy spoiled her quite a bit. His absence will be painful for her and for each of his children.
Hug your parents, sig other, children and your tribe and be thankful for them before they are gone. I don’t have any regrets there. I’m just saying aloud what you already know so you can take action.
EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY…including happiness but especially unhappiness.
❤️ Sandra Plenty
