Let's be Real, I Didn't Want to Face the World Today

I woke up Friday morning and didn't feel like facing my world -- kids and cleaning and just life. Some days the world looks bleak and hopeless and you see the sun outside but you just don't feel it. It almost seems to be mocking your emotions.

I'm not often exposed to other friends feeling this way and when we don't see it we feel like it's abnormal. But it's completely normal. It doesn't mean there's a chemical imbalance or something seriously wrong, it's just waking up to the same thing another day and not wanting to conquer the world. As my mentor said, "There are days when you feel like you're running, almost flying; and then there are days when you do a nose dive and you've got dirt up your nose and scraped knees." We just have to hold on to the rod; even if we're crying in the fetal position when He comes, we just have to be holding on. These days just take life more easily, curl up with your kiddos on the couch in your PJ's and watch Barney and just know it's all going to work out.

On hard days the Savior's message to us is "you just keep going, I have your back." There is no other way. We are learning, but we are mortal and weak; it's okay! That's why we came to earth to learn and grow through experience. The more we go through, the more we can help others because we've been there; we know what they're feeling. My mentor said she's had thousands of women have come to her expressing this same thought: when you think "I just don't want to face the world today" -- it just means you're human.