A LESSON FROM MY GRANDMA
This is my grandma, Barbara Curry.
To paint a picture for you on who my grandma was, she was always the most supportive, most loving, most people-oriented, and most kind person in any room. She looooooooooved a party and any reason to celebrate.
Growing up in Tacoma, WA, she became a single mother to three small kids, one of them being my dad, until she met my grandpa, Stuart Curry.
While the jobs she had during her life included working at a dry cleaners, a veterinary hospital, and an assisted living facility, the only job she truly cared about was being a grandma.
She helped raise me, my brother Drew, and my cousins Jack, Cole, and Grant, which included many many afternoons after school at the assisted living facility she worked at, many many sleepovers, and many many homemade meals any day of the week.
Anytime I was at grandma’s house and cried from making a mistake, whether it was an intentional one or not, one thing that she’d always say to me is:
“It’s ok Gabby. Accidents happen.”
I think about her and this phrase all the time. The older I get, the more I realize that she wouldn’t say this to excuse bad behavior, she would say this to reiterate the importance of forgiving yourself, fixing it, and moving on.
When you think about your past decisions, how often have you not only forgiven yourself, but used those lessons to create a better future and a better you?
This is life - we are all living in trial and error. The most important thing each of us can do is take the lesson in each decision we’ve made and use it as fuel and energy to move forward and create a better life for ourselves in alignment with who we were created to be.
One day at a time. One step at a time.
And next time you have a hiccup, fix it, take the lesson, and tell yourself, “It’s ok, accidents happen.”
x LG Curry