January 1, 2010 – Happy New Year!
Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were all panicking that our computers were going to shut down because it was the last day of 1999 and NOTHING was going to work at midnight!? Oh how time flies!!
When we look back I hope that most of us see the good things like weddings, babies, new jobs, new opportunities, new friendships, good health and so many more things that make us happy and joyous. But there are also the hard things like death, job loss, breakups, sickness and more. It is the joy that we have each and every day in our life that keeps us going through those hard times. And when we need it we can call on the strength of our friends and family to help carry us through. In time I have learned that there are things that there are some things we have control over that happen to us but most of the things that happen are not controlled but us, the only thing we have control over is how we go through the situation.
For those of you old enough to remember those old movies that we used to watch in school… you know the ones with actual FILM… the wheel in the front and the wheel in the back… a projector… yeah those… hehe. Remember how now and then those would get stuck and there would be that disturbance in the classroom, the loud clicking, the rush to the projector, the lights going on and the groan from the kids! Well imagine each moment as a frame in that film, we are going along in life good moment to good moment to good moment, then all of a sudden we have BAD moment and things get completely “stuck” and out of control! If we can just calmly stop, take a deep breath, rethread the film, reset things and turn the projector back on… then life will return to normal again and go on to enjoy the rest of the movie.
I do hope that this new year brings wonderful things into your life but I also hope that when things that aren’t so wonderful happen you get through them with the help of the people in your life taking you to the next wonderful frame in your movie and so your movie ends with the wonderful line… “and they lived happily ever after”.
Kary