Cindi Saltzman:
CLASS OF 1981
Pennsbury High SchoolClass of 1981
Fairless hills, PA
Cindi's Story
Life
I'm happier than I've ever been in my life! The 'thirty something' years have been great...Bring it on 40!
11/2007
Now I'm 44...
Ok...so "they" brought it on...nothing I couldn't take, but certainly not in small doses.
When I was 42, my business was thriving, both my girls were realizing their own dreams and ambitions, one graduating college, the other beginning college. My husband and I were just about to become "empty nesters" bought a little two seater sports car and began making plans to "live it up" again.
But fate had different ideas for us. On May 25, 2005 my dear sweet sister, Melissa died suddenly in a car accident at the age of 36, leaving behind two young daughters, 5 and 7. My husband and I took them into our home and "started over". Now, we are a family of 6. Mom, Dad and 4 daughters. :-) I miss my sister tremendously, but she left behind 2 precious gifts for me when she departed this world, and I will be forever grateful to her.
Because although our plans didn't turn out the way we intended, I realized there was a lesson to be learned, and a life meant to be lived in a world I was no longer seeing. A world that I'd forgotten about since my own kids were small. I'd been so wrapped up in daily work and monetary goals...Expand for more
, that I'd forgotten about "life". My "little girls" have brought me back to life. I no longer turn down a chocolate chip cookie, I can hear the birds in the morning, feel the rain on my face...and of course, I do take the time to literally "stop and smell the roses". :-) My 20 year old has moved back home and this coming August will make me a first time grandmother of Olivia Bea, another "little girl" of course!
I truly believe that in life, we are granted with the gift to experience wonderful things. True blessings, such as the love of our life, friendships, the birth of our children, time spent with family, good health, the success of our goals, and the ability to just simply be "thankful" for it all.
But the true test of one's accomplishments in life come when things DON'T go so wonderfully...you "pass", if you can still lie down at night, say your prayers, and thank god for the "lessons" you've learned that day. And understand that in order to appreciate the good times, there must be some bad. The so called Yin and Yang.
My days now end with a prayer of thanks for everything, good and bad, and a question to myself, "what lesson did life teach today?, and did I learn from it?"
Keep the faith and it will always turn out ok in the end.
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