My Life is A Story

Ever since I was a young girl strange things have happened to me from the time I had my accident. Honestly, there have been times I could not keep up. Just when I thought things would settle down my life would spiral from life to romance.

I always loved to write stories, songs, and poems. When life got tough writing was my happy place, and still is. Again, I treat everything and everyone like a story. When I was a young child I would see and hear things that did not make sense. Of course, when you tell an adult they would say, "oh, you did not see that, it is just a scary dream." Right!!! When I was young teenager that is when I really encountered the paranormal world. Thank God I had friends that had knowledge in this field. This also led me to conducting investigations and writing about hauntings on Boston Haunted Places for www.examiner.com in 2010. Paranormal can be exciting, but can also be very dangerous. Another story for another day.

Moving on, parenting is very exciting. I loved becoming a mother of an amazing son. He will always be my world. Lots of exciting stories with him. I will share a couple. My son started karate at the age 5, and became a black belt by 11. We have done a few trips together, and yes there were stories with every trip. My son is also into music, and extremely creative. There was a time my nephew and him were inseparable. Which was great because I only had one child. One night we went to the beach after a massive storm, and there was red lightning I always was fascinated by nature, so I took pictures not paying attention to what was coming our way. Next thing you know another masssive storm comes, but this time the lightning was shooting down like daggers, and we were in the open. So we had to run quickly to various gazebos where it was safe to try get back home. Another time we were hiking we found our pet Ziggy (alligator snapping turtle) now. He was injured in the woods, so we brought him to the animal hospital to get him better. Fast forward 21 years we still have in, and he is very healthy.

My work life has changed so many times from banking, education, to administrative. All of these jobs are a story. Here is the key to work always learn from every job you have, and approach it as how long do you want that story to go on for. Honestly, I have learned so much in all of jobs, and very grateful for every opportunity I had. I also worked various shifts, including overnight. I learned very quickly that is not the shift for me. Although now being in fifties that shift would fit lol. I pray one day I can sleep again. Anyway, when I was younger I did not appreciate some of the work I had. Looking back now I had benefits in most of them. Now that is a thing in the past. Jobs are so hard to come by, so I am lucky to have a job.

Love. When I was younger it was never this hard. Now in my fifties recently being single again, it is so hard. There are days I think to myself, you will never find anyone again, so do not even try. Then there are other days I think to myself that mister right is out there somewhere just keep digging through all of the muck, and that right one will come. Oh Boy, my hands are so dirty from all of the digging. However, I do treat every new relationship as a story. When I meet someone, and they start pulling crap my friends tell me get rid of them. But no I want to see how it plays out. I want to know what will happen next, because my life is a story. Of course some of them sweep me off my feet, and my heart flutters. Then some men are just like whatever. BTW I am still digging through the muck, so if my hands do not get tired I will still look.

As I mentioned my life is a story, but everyone's life is a story. Remember like I do take out the good stuff, and hold on it to it. Then take out the bad stuff, and learn from it. I cannot wait to see how my life story is in the future.

Write your story,

Cheryl A Nocera