Isn't it sad when people's hold on our lives make us wish those lives away. Here we are counting down days until we THINK we will be rid of stress. I used to do this too all the time. It got so bad that I wound up with anxiety and OCD.

Now I understand that there will always BE stress in my life. It really comes down to how I deal with it and how much I allow someone else to control my life.

I spent so much time and most of my own children's youth wishing time away that now I would give anything to have those days back. I missed alot of the good times because I was so busy stressing about the bad ones. I was too young and inexperienced to know that I was the one with the control over whether I allowed these people to influence my life.

I don't know if you have children of your own but think about it, you're spending all of your time wishing your own children's childhood away and your own youth. It is really a cold splash of water in the face once you learn that.