ONCE IN A BLUE MOON*

We’ve had several ‘Super Moons’ ***this year. We also hear about a Blue Moon**. The latter when used in such expressions as “once in a Blue Moon” usually means something which occurs very rarely.

That’s what I feel about opportunity rarely knocking and therefore providing us with a chance to get up and do something about it.

I think some people could sleep their lives away. Although it might not be nice to say, sleeping too much or sleepwalking through life on auto pilot comes to about the same thing; wasting your life.

Luckily, Once in a Blue Moon, something comes up in life which offers us a chance to extend ourselves outward beyond our comfort zone and actually move our lives in a new direction.

At one point, a couple of years ago, my youngest brother felt I had become so laid back that I could have been Comatose. No longer.

I doubt I’ll ever become a person who spends their time ‘busy being busy’, however, for some reason my life often seems to have many things coming up in one day or one short period of time. I’ve given up trying to figure that out.

The point is, if you can’t get a ‘Jump Start’ for your life any other way and one day you realize today you can do it, GO FOR IT. I also say such occasions make call for taking a Leap of Faith or taking a chance on yourself.

I doubt you will regret it, and if nothing else, you will be trying something new. That in itself might change your life enough to give you some new ideas, activities and a new direction.

*Once in a Blue Moon (song) Sydney Forest 1999 movie Simply Irresistible.  

**BLUE MOON - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon A blue moon is an extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full moons in a season or, recently, a second full moon in a month of the common calendar. Metaphorically, a "blue moon" is a rare event, as in the expression "once in a blue moon".

***SUPER MOON: Time and date.com says the following about Super Moons: “A Supermoon occurs when a full moon occurs at the same time as the Moon's closest approach to the Earth. When this happens, the Moon may seem bigger and brighter. A Supermoon can occur more than once a year, as it has in 2014. Although it appears larger, it is only an illusion and there is no difference in the size of a Supermoon and a regular Full Moon. The next Supermoon will be on Monday September 28^th, 2015.