Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Wake up in the morning, sip that first cup of coffee and set out to find something good to greet the writing day. And to bid it goodnight.

That’s my plan, though I am not under any illusions that it will be easy. Good news des not always jump into your face like bad does. Necessary, though, for me. Blogging about politics or news events is often, if not depressing is at least um… well, depressing. In the other meaning. Not particularly buoyant to the spirits, I guess.

So I figure that if at either end of the writing day I deliberately turn my mind to looking up, seeking out the positive, being downright sappy or woowoo if that’s what it takes, it’ll help to mitigate whatever other effects events have left behind.

Now when I sat down to write this I didn’t have anything positive in mind – until I reread the first five words: wake up in the morning.

Well, there we go – it’s a start, yeah? Even if it’s the evening or afternoon, waking up at all, even to dreadful circumstances, is a good beginning.

Or can be. I know some would rather not wake up at all if what is ahead is what they’ve left behind, but I guess I’m a subscriber to the “where there is life there is hope” school of thought. Easy indeed for me to say, never having faced an unimaginably bad day.

Then again, what is “unimaginably bad” is relative, I suspect. Some of my (thankfully past) days would send others completely around the bend.

Anyway, for me, today, waking up this morning into my imperfect and sometimes very annoying life is my positive, hopeful thing of the start of the morning. Some of what happens throughout the rest of the day is beyond my control; most everything else is up to me.

There. Kinda scary but still positive, no?

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