👋 Is this really it for us?

It's Monday. I'm here for you.

Hi, Friend! It's me, Jen Glantz.

You know what? You have to believe that you will get a second chance. That you're not a one hit wonder. That the best moments of your life and love and career have not already happened. Good moments have happened, of course, great ones too. But let's just pretend that the good in our life is actually infinite. It's unlimited. Bottomless. It never runs out. So if that's the case, you can still revisit your highs with hugs.

But what about your loooooows? What about the times when you're so bloated with regret that you actually like feeling delusional because it helps you believe if you get angry enough at yourself and close your eyes and squeeze your pelvic floor, you will enter the time machine that will let you finally fix that mistake, or show up at the right time and right place, or say yes when you didn't and no when you should have, or had the smarts like your one friend who is always seeing things as if her time machine goes forward. Here's one for you: if you could, would you go back or beyond? Ughhh I don't care what's ahead, I just always want to go back and do it all again.

And on the days when even my own certified grade-A delusion wears off and I realize I can't strap on one of my toddler's superhero capes and fight off the demons of my past with a foam sword, I come back to the reality of curling onto the couch and realizing what if this isn't it? What if tomorrow, or 212 days after tomorrow, or six years from now when we're sooooo fed up with our M-F, something really whimsical and wonderful will happen to us? Want better? What if you even get that chance again to do something spectacular or different or exciting or boring or whatever? One more for you, because I love you. What if you nothing happens to you. BUT! You wake up one day and you start doing something, then another something, then 12 more somethings, and you make something happen? Yes! I love that because they say in fiction writing that if you want your main character to be likable, things can’t just happen to her, she has to create the action too. Our lives read like fiction when we promise to be the ones who make them interesting.

All I'm trying to say, as you scroll through LinkedIn and see people's egos, I mean careers, pop off, and their AI-written life updates, or as you somehow stumble upon old, I'm talking verrrry old emails, of when the most exciting time of your life was happening, before you lost it, or grew out of it, or someone told you your time was up, is that don't you dare for one second think you're some washed-up, tossed aside lemon. No, not you.

Something good is on its way to you. You will get back up again. You will find yourself in that conference room, or on that sparkly little date, or giving lip service to that idea that you can't stop thinking about and you will start thinking: is this happening? Am I, I!!!!, getting a chance again?

You better believe you will. The only true parenting advice people give new moms is this: The years are short but the days are long. Remember that, my love. Life is short but there are really so many nexts ahead for you.

Take care of yourself this week (ilysm),

Jen Glantz

Books * Say hello

📖 Two Books I Loved This Week:

• Finished Everyone is Lying to You in less than a day. It’s a murder mystery page-turner with themes that include social media influencers and trad-wives. Looooved this.

• I bought The Wedding People months ago but never opened it. I could not put this book down. It’s so well-done, the jokes are hilarious, and the story takes so many good turns.

👖On My Shopping List

• An $8 necklace that doubles as a really great gift. I bought a few of these to add to birthday baskets friend gifts this year.

• I’ve got my eye on these sneakers for dresses and skirts.

• An elevated tank top that can carry us through summer and into fall.

• This is what all the cool girls in Brooklyn are wearing right now.

• If you’re flying a lot of this year, this could be a gadget that you need to pack.

My Random Piece of Advice for You Is:

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