MapQuest

Convenient amnesia. My father loves to use this term with me when he believes I've purposely forgotten something I don’t like.  I laugh at him every time he says it because he’s right on point. There are some parts of my life I don’t want to remember. The problem in doing this is that I forgot the struggle I had to go through to get to where I am now.

I know more than a couple of folks who seem to have had some memory lapses. They have forgotten that they too have had low points in life. Instead they walk around and stick their noses in the air and have the look at me now attitude.  They've gotten a new house, new man, new woman, new body, new car, new job,  a new new and they forget the old old. They have forgotten what it was to be on the other side and now that they have everything they've always wanted they drop the people they always needed.

See while there’s no harm in being happy for your come up, there’s a poison in forgetting to thank the past for placing where you are now. Never forget the people who were there, the encouragement you received, the prayers that were prayed, the tears that you cried or the mistakes that you made. 

So remember the road to success is not always an upward climb, there are some valleys too.  And most importantly there may be an unexpected U-turn, because while you’re busy sticking your nose up in the air , you may just miss your turn and end up right back where you started from……A dead end.