What advice would you give to your teenage self?
My advice to my teenage self would be to suck it up, buttercup! Why? And where did you hear this from? Well, I probably heard it but never paid any mind to it when I was young. It wasn’t until after I had been working and in my 40’s did it really catch my attention. A co-worker who used to be a high school math teacher came to work in our office. She said this all the time, and the meaning of it still did not hit home until recently.
Let me tell you that this saying is now a running joke between my husband and myself. Whenever we have to put up with something challenging (well, I can’t say challenging but just harder because we are older), we will just say, “Suck it up buttercup!”
I thought this would be the makings for a good song. I have never heard anybody ever sing it, and I have never heard anybody try to ever explain what it means. So here it is! My version of what it means to me.
Behind the lyrics, Verse 1 is about how when I was learning to ride my bike, I would fall down and scrape my knees. No telling how many bruises I got from it, but each time, I would just get up and try try again. I remember this one time when I was 13 years old before I started 9th grade, that I was just peddling on the side of the highway and not giving no attention to where I was going or what was in front of me. I just remember turning to look behind me for some reason, and the next thing I knew. I was flying over the handlebars onto the asphalt. I had a 2 inch gash right below my left kneecap on my left leg for 2 months. I don’t know if there was anything in it or not, but I remember it really hurt. All mom did was put antibiotic cream on it and covered it with gauze. I didn’t go to the doctor or anything. Back in the 1980’s, there was no running to the emergency room for every little thing.
Verse 2 is about working at a job that you don’t necessarily want to do but you have to do to make ends meet. My current day job kind of fits into that category but I still do like what I do and no, I am not going to share that information, at least not at this time.
Verse 3 is about cleaning the house. Now, my mom kept a clean house with three kids. Granted, she did not work outside the house, but she still kept it clean and we never went out to eat. It had to be a really special occasion. I do work outside the house, so keeping house is not on my priority list, but it still gets done.
With that being said, I hope you enjoy this little song. Please! Please! Won’t you go to my YouTube channel and subscribe if you haven’t already and give me Thumbs Up! I would greatly appreciate your support my friends.
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