I have been marooned without a car for the past couple of days, and I have had some time to sit and think. Often, that can be a bad thing, I honestly think that I am my own worst enemy at times, but these thoughts have been good.
There are things happening in my life, which are out of my control, and for the first time I have actually let that be. I have tried to control so much in the past, and that has been futile and draining, a little like Canute trying to hold back the sea.
Life is going to happen, whether we want it to or not, but it is our response to those changes and curve balls which makes the experience bearable.
For the first time in a helluva long time, I have not been petrified with anxiety or stress.
Am I scared? Yes of course, but not petrified and I think that makes all the difference, to coin a phrase from Robert Frost.
I hope that whatever you are facing, you are able to look at it positively and just let it be, so that you can face the day with strength and that inner resilience which is so much of being human.
Well said dad. Experiences good or bad make us into who we are and will become, even though we don't see it yet.