Tipping the Scales

The end of the year is fast approaching as November is quickly running out. As the nights draw in so do the walls, there is a definite claustrophobic feel in the air, never having been one to fear suffocation it is quite disorientating as I try to find the space in the ever decreasing space to breathe, to find a freedom and a chink of sunshine in the ever present grey light.

I can already hear people rifling in drawers looking for sharp implements after reading the first paragraph, stick with it, I will guide this somewhere near a sunshine ending.

Life is about balance, we live trying to keep the biggest pair of scales we will ever know, level. How ever the coming months effect my usual sunny disposition there will be a way of seeing that at the end of the day every negative is cancelled out.

When you wake you may be having a bad hair day, negative. You walk down the street someone greets you with a friendly smile, positive. That simple illustration shows where life corrects itself as it goes along. But as we sit listening to the rain pitter patter against the windows and look at the gas bill out of the corner of my eyes it is very easy to be taken away from seeing the natural balance.

The negatives of life have an ability to leap out, they hit you in the face without you having to look for it and for that reason it is easy to believe that it outweighs the positive, not true. The positive is in every corner of life, it does have a tendency to remain quiet though but it is there. It is looking out for each and every one of us, it is in each and every one of us and that is the beauty of it – we can share it with each other.

I really don't have my usual flurry of words at the moment but I have the simple message – by making someone else smile you help to balance their scales, taking away their grey cold November feeling. We are here to help each other, it only takes a kind word, one of the most valuable gifts we possess.

My return has been short and sweet but maybe it leave you with something to think about.

As ever, take care my friends.

Enjoy today, look forward to tomorrow.