It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new life for me and I’m feeling good.
– Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse
These lyrics from “Feeling Good” sung by Nina Simone could describe why I started this blog. I wanted to share my experience learned from my half-century on this earth, being a woman in an ever-changing family, community, and world.
My name is Gia Gilmour and the one thing that has been consistent in my life is teaching others. In 6th grade (when it was still part of the elementary school years), I was an aide in the 2nd-grade classroom. I would help the 2nd- graders with reading, writing, math, or whatever the assignment was during my weekly visit.
Younger Years
In high school, thoughts of my future beyond 18 were about writing, teaching, about photography. I thought about it. However, I did not take any action to continue my interests. I only did what was required to further my education and essentially my career. I procrastinated. I was afraid. What I didn’t know was that any step I would have taken would have been stepping in the right direction. When I graduated high school, I didn’t know what to do. I had no interest in a career and no interest in school.
Growing Up
So, what I do next? I started at a junior college because it was “the right thing to do”. Then my life REALLY changed. It didn’t change because I was going to school, it changed because I got pregnant. I dropped out of school, had my daughter, and married her father. Because I was too afraid to make a decision that could have changed my life dramatically, I stayed with a man that I really didn’t love. I then had a son. When my son was just over a year, I finally swallowed that fear and filed for divorce. But the best thing that happened from not procrastinating any longer? I met my now-husband of more than 20 years the day after hiring a lawyer to get a divorce!
Now
It has been a little more than 25 years since that wonderful day of meeting my current husband. I have made great choices with some good and some bad consequences. I have procrastinated and suffered because of it, but I keep going. Isn’t that what we want? To find the silver lining in the storm cloud?
There is more that I want to share, teach, and communicate about my life with you, but we will save that for a later time. Right now, I have a question for you. What big decision have you made that changed your life? For the better or worse; it doesn’t matter which direction your decision took you. Leave a comment below and let me know. I would love to hear from you. Thank you for reading my page. This is a big leap of faith and I want to take a journey with you.
