Busy-Tired-Poor

The next time someone asks me how I'm doing, I'm going to try really hard and make an effort to NOT say one of the following.:

"I'm busy. Really, really busy."
"I'm tired. Really, really tired."
"I'm poor. Feeling really broke this month."

Even if one of them is true, I won't say it. Even if all three of them are true, I still won't say it, and here is why.

1) We are all busy. Everyone is busy. I don't know one person who isn't busy or who doesn't have things going on. Whether you are single, married, with kids, without kids, with pets, without pets, working full time, working part time, volunteering, not volunteering,....we're all busy. It's all relative. It's nothing new, and I'm not going to get a lot of pity by saying it anyway. You know something? Life would probably be pretty boring if we weren't busy, and I for one, am a happier person the "busier" I am.

2) We are all tired. We all could use more sleep. We all want to "sleep in" more. We all want more energy. We all wish we had the energy to work all day, take care of our kids, run errands, and then run a marathon before going to bed, but that just won't happen. I'm amazed that more of us don't fall asleep at the wheel or at our jobs with how "busy" our lives are, and I'm being serious. The world is crazy, and we're expected to do it all and then some. But we're all tired.

3) We're all broke. None of us are wealthy. Yes, most of us have some kind of debt and aren't swimming in money. I know VERY few people who don't have to worry about finances. But even those people still watch what they spend. But the truth is, we're really not that poor. We struggle at times, and money can be tight, but most of us always have food to eat, clothes on our backs and a roof over our heads. My life has definitely changed since I purchased a home, but I made that choice. I'm probably still richer than most of our world's population.