She's breaking my heart...

I love my J.

She's got a good soul underneath that 14 year old tough exterior.

I even like the person that she is - she truly is a good person at times.

But she's breaking my heart.

Opportunity is one of those things that I feel is valuable. It's only available at times and as a grown-up I strongly recommend that she takes it.

Opportunity to her is something that will come around again - so she will take her chances.

As adults we know that opportunity doesn't come around again. Sometimes - people never see it. Never have it and hope and dream for it.

We say - only the rich get richer. But remember when we were told to invest in that 401k when we were starting out in business but pinched our pennies and denied the opportunity? We now are struggling with only a few years left to make up the loss that the opportunistic folks now have.

We say - education is everything. Remember when we had the opportunity to do our very best in school and we just got by? Now the opportunistic folk hold the keys to our futures.

Time slips away and opportunities fade.

For a girl who looks at me and states she will not be a failure like her mother....She really looks like me.

That breaks my heart.

I now know an opportunity when I see it.

If only I can teach her to see it.