FBW: Meghan from Meg’s Idle Chatter (Ms. October)

FBW stands for Featured Blogger of the Week. Each week we will feature one of our calendar ladies or gentleman. Mondays will be a post written by the FBW and Wednesdays will be an interview of the FBW. If you want to know how you can be a part of the Blogger Body Calendar project, please click here.

“Be the hero of your own life story.” –Alex Rover, Nim’s Island

I remember seeing the Blogger Body Calendar last year and thinking that I would never do anything like that. Not that I wouldn’t want to, but because I’m just me. Who wants me in a calendar? I’m just a mom with a blog. A woman with a blog and a lot say, but not anyone who would ever be in a calendar.

But now here I am. It wasn’t like I set out to “be” in a calendar. But sometimes life just goes in funny directions that you didn’t actually see coming. And now I’m in a calendar.

I often think of life in terms of being a writer. Something I’ve been doing since I was first able to put a pen to paper. And in the last few years as I’ve made a meager living (OK, not really a “living” but….) as a writer it’s been a roller coaster. But being in a calendar for bloggers, which to me is just another word for writer, is kind of a big deal.

We all have our dreams and aspirations in life. But so often we get mired down by the ins and outs of everyday life, that those dreams and aspirations just become treasures in a hope chest, things we dust off and look at every once in awhile and then put back in and never really do anything with.

We forget about those dreams as we work hard to do everything for everyone. To be everything for everyone. Mom, wife, volunteer, employee, co-worker, boss, friend, thin, energetic, happy, patient, perfect… etc. Sometimes our true sense of self gets so buried that it might as well be buried in that hope chest along with our dreams.

And being in this calendar is my chance to look at all of you reading this and say, dust off the dreams and take them out. Forget being who other people think you should be and be the person you want to be. Want to lose weight? Lose it. Want a new job? Find it. Want to be a better mom? Be one. Want to go back to school? Go. Want to learn to ballroom dance? Hop to it.

You are the hero of your own life story. The pen is in your hand, the next chapter is yours to write. No one else’s, so get busy writing. Because somewhere is a calendar with your name on it, waiting to show the world how awesome you are.

Happy living ladies!

You can find more of Meghan’s highly caffeinated and chocolate tinged musings at Meg’s Idle Chatter, Life360 or SheHeroes.org (where she is also in charge of New Media) and on Twitter at @meghan1018.