Ain't THAT a Kick in the Pants?!?

No matter WHAT you read here, please do NOT consider it to be sarcasm (except in the form of fun), competition (except for the purpose of gentle teasing), mockery (with only a LITTLE thought to poking someone I care for), sneering (I AM, after all, HUMAN) or disrespect (except, p'rhaps, with a slight jab at my OWN failure to act when I should've).

That said to clear up anyone's feelings that I may, in ANY WAY, be upset... lemme' just ask ONE tiny an' simple little question: "Ain't THAT a Kick in the Pants?!?"

I mean, SERIOUSLY, ya'll. I like to think I'm a good mama. A passing gramma' an' a friend to all animals who don't give me the creeps. In fact, if the truth be known ~ ~ ~ I may have even saved a life, here an' there, when occasion presented itself. Jus' sayin'...

Okay, okay! So, the life I saved MIGHT have been MY OWN. But still ~ ~ ~ if it were you, well... you might've done the same. Am I right?

So, lemme' tell you all a short story:

Long, long ago (a few months, if I'm truthful), someone close to me (well... ME) found this really great website where folks could go to have fun, meet people, be encouraged an' make money. After figuring out that this new website was all that an' HONEST, too, I decided to share. In fact, I shared with someone special; my little girl. I'm nice like that. :D

On WA I began to study the lessons an' learn what I needed to do in order to advance myself to the first level. BINGO! I was movin' right along, when I realized that my very smart little girl was doin' the same. Hot DIGGITYY! In MY thoughts, that certainly increased MY value by many points. Don't ya'll agree? My little girl an' I would soon be showing alla' family what successes we were on' Wealthy Affiliate, as well as around the home fires. I saw myself as the HERO of the day. Makes sense, don'tcha' think?

I was goin' along, minding my own business, building a website, when BANG! Just like That! I had sump'n I've never before experienced in my entire LIFE! STAGE FRIGHT!

Seriously?!? What's up with That?!? I always felt that deep-down sense that, "I don't DDDOOOOOOO Stage Fright. With Anything! Ever!"

You ever feel that way? Can't move forward? Can't move back? Can't figure out what's goin' on, so of Course, you can't FIX it.

Lemme' tell you a bit about myself: my mama said that when I was born, I never met a stranger. Okay, it's pro'lly a cliche' an' jus’ maybe, other babies are the same. But as I grew, I could talk to Anyone. No inhibitions, whatsoever. None. No fear of rejection. No fear of bodily harm.

If someone had said, "Let's climb Mt. Vesuvius," I'm sure I would've started packing my tent. I've always been that way. The best great adventure was the next great adventure.

Now, all of a sudden, I was facing my own WALL of FEAR an' there didn't seem to be any way around it; side-to-side, up, down... it didn't matter. I had been conquered. "By what," you may cleverly ask.

By the ONE thing that I felt the most confidence in; Writing, of all things!!!

For the LIFE of Me, I could not write a single word on Wealthy Affiliate! It just wasn't happening.

About the same time, I had some rather incapacitating things going on with my health. Now, not only was I faced with my First-Ever case of Stage Fright an' Writer's Block... NOW, I even had sump'n to blame it on. Oh, don't get me wrong ~ ~ ~ the health issues are very real an' all, but for ME, they now served to ENABLE the fear that was eating away at my Psyche.

Soon, I realized that my little girl was goin' great guns on WA an', before I realized what had happened, she had Caught Up an' passed me in the lessons.

I hear ya'! I can hear those little thoughts of yours, saying, "But WA is Not a competition!"

An' you're Right! It's Not.

But ~ ~ ~ THIS is my little GIRL. An' she was doin' SO Well. An' I was SO Torn; Proud of how well she was doin', while Still feeling that I should be the one leading HER. I mean, I introduced her to WA an' I AM, after all, her MAMA!

But things soon took a turn... for the Better or, the Worse, depending on your perspective.

I LOVE WA! Did you know that there is practically NO age limit for building a business on WA? Yup! It's true. Now, my little girl has begun showing HER little boy what a wonderful place WA can be. Yup! You heard me right.

Now, my young GRANDSON is goin' along, minding his own business an' building his website on WA. Can I BE More Embarrassed?!?

Haha! Please don't take anything I've said as though I am displeased. No. In fact, I couldn't be Prouder if I tried.

Yes, my embarrassment is real, as I d~r~a~g myself to my computer an' struggle to save face, even knowing that such attitude is unnecessary. But when it all comes together, I feel very pleased to know that my Kiddoes can look to WA for building a future. If this type of embarrassment is what it takes to help me overcome a little Writer's Block, well... I'll take it.