Do you!!

I don't know about you girls but I have always been the type of girl who wants to please everyone? I know some of you are out there. I don't mean to burst your bubble but that will almost never happen. We often times please everyone but ourselves. I am the type of person that ok maybe over commits. I live my life like I am Super Woman.
Unfortunately short of the actual costume I have no super hero powers. I cannot be in two places at once no matter how I promise people I can. I am one person and can only do so much. This recently came to mind during a woman's confernce. Almost all the women there were confessing that they wished they had more time. They wished they could manage their time better, that they didn't take on so much. A bell was going off in my head.
I was like ME TOO!!! I couldn't help but nod in agreement. Here I was seated in a room with so many educated Latinas, some with such extradordinary careers and marriages and children. The majority of us could rule the world if we put our minds to it. I didn't know where they found the time to do what they did. I thought to myself man why do we women always try to please everyone. When do we learn to live for us, to take time for us?
Do we feel selfish for being about ourselves? In my own instance I know I have felt selfish for asking for me time. I have felt that putting family, friends and relationships on the back burner often makes me feel kind of guilty. But why should it? If I never do what I want to do how happy will I be?
I have spent a large portion of my life trying to make everyone happy. I have spent time comparing myself to others and trying to fit in this little box everyone tries to put me in. And who did I please?? I can say it was never myself.
I started a campaign for myself last year. I decided to live fully and fearlessly. I decided to, JUST DO ME!!! I am doing what I want to do and am I happy. I can say heck yes.
I was tired of asking for people's input and listening to what they thought I should do. It gets rather annoying when people expect so much of you when perhaps you are happy. I am sick of people asking me why I'm not in grad school, or when I am going to be in grad school? News flash it's not going to get me in tomorrow. Thanks for the pressure.
I am tired of people telling me it's ok to be single. Uh, yea thanks but I kind of already knew that. I don't need a pat on the had like a puppy. I'm tired of people getting pissed off because I'm busy. I'm busy living not watching others live.
If you get tired of people ragging on you for all the things you are not doing or are doing or what you don't do enough of, today could be your day, your day where you say I AM DOING ME!!! Pull out a piece of paper and write what you want to do, what do you want? Then plaster that piece of paper somewhere you are going to see it. and DO IT!!! DO YOU!!!
While I don't think people mean bad when they give me criticism I just think that maybe sometimes we are more concerned with other people's lives than what we want to happen in our own. I'm still working on my overcommitment issues. I am prioritizing better and I only commit to what I know I can do. I think I've learned my lesson in doing too much. I want to be true to myself and live a happy and full life. Life is a journey, the cool thing is, THE JOURNEY ISN'T ANYONE'S BUT YOURS!!!
Maybe today is the day for you, the day to just DO YOU!! And if so I raise my glass to you!! Cheers!!