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Friday, May 01, 2015

Briauna Skye McKizzie, GoLocalPDX Contributor

When I was very young, I’d write obsessively in my diary about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Convinced that my diary would eventually be found, published, and read by millions, I documented the details of my future carefully. 

I planned to go to a summer camp. There, I would meet and fall in love with either Jonathan Taylor Thomas or Billy Dee Williams, whichever one of them spoke to me first.

We’d keep in touch after camp ended, but I would put my career as a nightclub singer first. Eventually, though, I would again cross paths with my true love, and so I’d give up my life of music to be with him and him alone. 

Working to make ends meet, I’d get a secretary job at an office and wear these skirt suits that I’d see at Goodwill. I thought these suits were totally “tight.” I’d be in love, I’d have a “classy” job, and eventually the babies would come.

Obviously, I was a pretty weird kid who probably watched one too many movies. 

However, I knew what I wanted…or I thought I did.

Fourteen years later, life wasn’t looking anything like what I had written down in my green, glow in the dark ink. 

I wasn’t married or a washed up nightclub singer (bummer). Instead, I was single, in labor, and more than a little homicidal (labor pains will do that to you). 

I’m not going to lie and claim that the pain of labor and discomfort of nine months of nausea, fainting, and vomiting dissipated the moment I saw my daughter. However, seeing her face made me finally realize that while my life wasn’t going the way that I planed…my life was still a good life. It was a different but good life.

Motherhood doesn’t necessarily make you a deeper human being than anyone else in your community. However, for some of us, motherhood does have a tendency of changing who we are for the better.

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