Good afternoon all, I am still here despite the infrequency of my posts recently. The great hamster wheel of life has been turning and I've been unable to get off, an experience I am sure that you are all familiar with. Whilst I have been furiously been trying to prevent myself from falling off the wheel I have had a lot of time for reflection, a lot of time to face fears and ultimately get to what I am going to share today.
Sometimes it is easier to look at the floor than look ahead, because you just don't want to see what is there – something I have been guilty of many times over the years. Recently I've had no choice but to look directly at the horizon and stand up to what I saw before me. I'm not going to pretend that was easy and that I didn't slip from my usually sunny disposition because I did, several times, only to be caught by the good people that I have in my life which brings me onto the fact I was born lucky.
Define the word luck, I can bet if we all did it we all would come up with totally different definitions. When people first get to know me there is a tendency for people to think I have been terribly unlucky in life, that couldn't be further from the truth. I have always been told 'what doesn't break you makes you stronger', isn't that the truth.
My definition of luck has nothing to do with winning the lottery or anything along the lines of material enrichment, as you would of known if you had read my blog before. Having a life rich in love, opportunity and chances is what I see as luck – that is what I have. In my world luck isn't anything unexpected, it is something always present normally without recognition. Look around you now, go through your mobile phone, think of what you did last weekend – all the people that you know, share life with, who want to share part of their life with you doesn't that show how lucky we all are?
I am now through the other side of the tunnel I have been walking down for the last few weeks, I'm through it because I had luck on my side once again. As difficult as it is to accept the offer of someone holding your hand at times it is one of the greatest gifts that can ever be offered, it is part of the good fortune we have been blessed with. It isn't possible to go through life without tripping over sometimes but remember before you fall to look at what surrounds you and you will soon be upright and strolling once more. Believe me, it is the truth.
The phrase goes 'pick a penny up and have good luck all day' – I must pick up a penny every single day of my life.
Take care my friends.
Enjoy today, look forward to tomorrow.
Well now! How absolutely wonderful! That puts the wind in your sails.
ReplyDeleteI have often said that you think of things the way the world should. But now I see you think of them much the same as I do. Too many people think of their friends in a negative way. Not all....just too many....but you, you make me want to apprieciate all the people in my life....good and bad. Besides, if it were't for them all, whether good ones or bad ones, I wouldn't be who I am today and I wouldn't be blessed with the riches I, myself, have aquired over the years....or the passed few months. ;o)
Now, I feel as I HAVE indeed won the lottery.
Glad to have a positive ramble, and rightly so! keep smiling, keep moving forward, and remember- See a penny, pick it up, and all day long ....you'll have a penny......:)
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