The future is not entirely within our control. We can shape and mold, hope and pray, but the future is never certain. What will tomorrow bring? Where will I be in a year? Who will leave my life? Who will enter?
It’s exciting and overwhelming. The options are endless and the possibilities are likely beyond our scope of imagination.
Daunting? yes.
Lucky for us – we can choose HOW we look at the future and we can choose optimism OR pessimism. We have a choice. And we can prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.
And though we may not get to pick the story of our MadLib game – we get to pick adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and verbs.
“”"(insert name) was so lucky to go to a/an (insert sport) game. He/she was (insert emotion) even though his/her (insert food) dropped and landed right on his/her (insert body part.)”"”
(btw – if you don’t get this MadLib reference/metaphor – you missed a great part of being a kid! :) )
September 14th is a bittersweet day.
A few years ago I always planned on phone calls, birthday dinners and/or birthday FUN around the 14th. Now? Well now my brother isn’t around to celebrate birthdays. So those plans, along with hopes for the future, dreams of having same aged kids and huge family reunions with a genius brother whose style was impeccable and grammar was without reproach are all gone.
But want to know what isn’t gone?? My memories.
That’s right – and barring brain disease or injury – NO ONE can take away my memories. I’ll have them for as long as I live. And this September 14th I relived a few memories. And I’m so grateful that I have GREAT memories on which to reflect.
Memories are wonderful things. Even the painful ones. Most of them relate to an experience you had with someone else that forged a bond between you. Others give you an important lesson you’ll never repeat. And then there are those that at the time were painful, but later you do look back and laugh.
This post was a reminder to me that right now I’m sitting in neutral. My future, my present, whatever, I’m just letting it all happen. I’m not making the most of now to make tomorrow what I want it to be. I really need to get my act together.