Secretariat

My family and I went to see the movie Secretariat this weekend. It is a really good movie and I highly suggest it! I'm not sure I came away with the message that the writers and producers were trying to put out there but I wanted to share my perspective with you.

My entire life I have wanted to be a mother. I can remember when the recruiter for my college was asking what I wanted to major in, how very foreign that question was to me. I didn't know. I really hadn't even thought about it. I knew that my path was get a high school diploma, get a college diploma, get married, have kids, live happily ever after. Now, I don't want to hear about how very archaic my way of thinking was. It is just what I always wanted. So, my response to him was I want to help people and his response to me was Communications.

Trust me. As a parent I am going to be much more proactive with my children in having them think about the fact that every decision you make is made toward the rest of you life. College, friends, relationships etc. etc, but this is more about my path and what I have learned so let's move on.

I have always been exactly on my path. I graduated from college. I got a good job. I had my own apartment. I paid my own bills. I married my high school sweetheart. We had a nice life and we decided to add two beautiful children to it. It has always been and remains to be a wonderful life.

Penny Chenery is the heroine of the movie Secretariat. She went along about the same path as I did. College, marriage, kids and then when she was almost 50 she was faced with a decision to either take the same path she had been on or add the complications and confusion of learning how to run a horse breeding business. She took the complicated road. At 50! It inspired me. Not only did she succeed but the product of her toil is forever burned in history as by far one of the most outstanding conclusions the horse world had ever seen.

Now, I am not going to go run a horse farm and I don't see any thing of the sort coming down my path but it might and I'm not too old. You see this has been my worry or frustration. The degree I received while it is a good one, is outdated. Most of the technical mumbo jumbo that I learned is outdated and considered archaic. So, when it is time for me to go back out into the work world what am I to do? Probably more schooling for sure. I'm okay with it though. The movie Secretariat has shown me that no matter how old I am I can always learn something new and be really good at it, even the best! The job I am currently doing is raising my children, I'm not going to add keeping the house because I am horrible at that but I will get better I will get there. I am raising my children to be excellent additions to this world and when the time comes for them to go off on their own path there will still be a path for me and it will be a good path, an exciting path, a path of many possibilites I just don't know what they are yet.