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Day 26 on Linda’s #JusJoJan challenge… I can’t believe I’m still here! And Linda will be hosting for the rest of the challenge!

The Just Jot It January 26th prompt, brought to you by Kelli of Forty, c’est Fantastique! is: “Extraordinary.” Use it any way you’re inspired to. And make sure you stop by and say hi to Kelli as well! Here’s her blog: https://fortyandfantastique.wordpress.com/ .

Something to ponder on today…

“We are all born extraordinary. It’s people, expectations and life that make us ordinary. So it’s up to us to do something to bring that extraordinary back.” – Ritu 2017

Each and every one of us is a miracle when we are born.

Yet life moulds us as we grow, to be like one another. To conform to the norm. If you are different, you are strange.

You are given targets to achieve, to reach normal progress levels at school. And the same goes at college, and work. You have these same invisible targets in life, as a parent and person. In order to be normal, like the others, you want to achieve at least them.

But why not give ourselves the chance to break the mould?

Ordinary is ok, average is normal.

Push yourselves that little bit more, where you see a strength.

You never know, you may achieve something extraordinary!

This weeks words of inspiration from Ronovan’s Writes #BeWoW Be Wonderful On Wednesday are Ordinary and Extraordinary.

My take…

You know those children, those ORDINARY children, that you see walking down the street, the others that are your child’s peers at school? They might seem ordinary to you, but to someone, to their parents, they are EXTRAORDINARY!

Aren’t all our children? To us?

That first word, first crawl, first step, first tooth… extraordinary moments in your life, with regards to your child.. but its an ordinary thing, lets be honest… most of our children have been through the same stages. Yet it is thrilling for us to recount these events to everyone, yet when someone else tells you about their child’s moment of wonder, you often wonder why they are making a big deal of it!

The truth of the matter, is that though having a child is an ordinary, everyday occurrence, it is an extraordinary phenomena! To think that inside your body, over the course of a pretty short nine months, you create, form, another human being is a pretty amazing thing! Extraordinary!!!