putting it in perspective!

As I watch my kids grow so very fast and life just seem to fly by I think there is a time in your life when you have to put your life, your friends,and your priorities in perspective. As I talk to my children about the way they treat others and the way they should be treated it makes me look in the mirror. It makes you look at relationships you have worked so hard to keep and you have to ask "Is it worth it?" I consider myself a christian women and I always try to be nice to everyone. I just feel that there comes a time were bad relationships pull you down, they have a way of making you feel bad about yourself. It has taken me way to long to realize that when you have to work so hard to make a relationship work you may be neglecting a true friend or someone who does love you. As I start to make these moves in my life my emotions are mixed. There is a since of loss because it seems that I have tried for a long time to hold on to something that wasn't there. But I also feel so much better having this new look at life. There are many things we teach our kids and all I can do is pray that I am raising them to be good people and that they will be strong in their convictions. I pray when they hit those cross roads in life they choose the right path. The best way I know to teach them is to live the example make the choices I would like them to make. I want them to be helpful and loving but also strong enough to recognize when it is not appreciated and when it is time to smile and say they have learned something from this situation and walk away. I have always tried to live my life with NO REGRETS!! just learning experience!! Thanks for listing to my rant and raves it may not make since to anyone but me but I feel better!! I must say that my dear hubby has stood by my side for many years knowing the out come but loving me enough to let me try and in the end there were no I told you so's just loving arms ready to pick me back up. For all of this I must say Thank you to my best friend!!