The power of positivity. Is "positivity" even a word? If not, I'm making it one. Blame it on Galinda. She's the good witch character in the musical play "Wicked." She has a penchant for making up words to suit her needs. For that matter, so does George Bush, so let's blame it on him too. While we're at it, let's blame everything on him! I'm sorry, that sounded negative. So I must point out that, on the positive side, he has provided us with lots of funny bloopers.
Anyway, my point is it's a new day, new year and I'm going to try and look at things with a new attitude. Finding something positive about each day shouldn't be too hard, right? For instance, take a look at this cute mailbox. It almost makes getting bills out of it fun! Okay, that might be a stretch, but it is a start, and you have to start somewhere.
Earlier in the week, I caught part of an Oprah show where she was featuring people who have overcome great tragedies in their lives. One woman lost her young son and husband in a small plane crash. She talked about how she came to realize that instead of asking "why me?" the real question should be "why not me?". She started to look at what she had been given--time with her husband and son--rather than what she had lost. Of course this was not a realization she came to overnight but in the end it helped her come out of the darkness.
In the Free Press this week there was an article about a mother who lost her 11-year old son to a tragic accident at home. In order to make something good come out of this, she donated his organs so that someone else wouldn't have to suffer the loss of a child.
A while back I mentioned a friend of mine who passed away from esophageal cancer two years ago. As he was going through his ordeal he declared that he "refused to get on the bitter bus."
Many of us have been blessed to not have experienced such challenges as these. However, we all face adversity, no matter how small. These people have set some incredible examples of how you view dying can help you start living.
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