Did I miss something?

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else" ~ Emerson

When we are young, we always think, we have to be at that party, or go to that event, because if we don't we will miss out on the big thing going on, or a person that might be there, and we will miss our big opportunity if we don't make it. I have thought alot about this, and yes, I was one of those...always feeling like I'd missed something along the way. I was raised pretty strictly so I wasn't allowed to party alot, or go out and be gone for days, I was on a pretty short leash! My mother felt like she had gotten too much of everything when she was young, therefore she kept me from getting too much, although my concern was that I wasn't getting enough! LOL!! It is true, that if you miss something along the way, you will get something to replace it later. And more times than not, it is much better than what you originally thought you had missed in the first place! It is what you give to others that they gain something that they were missing, and you don't feel that you have missed what you have gained.