WHAT YOU SEE MAY BE WHAT YOU GET

Some time ago I cited the Chantal Kreviazuk song ‘Time’ to illustrate someone who has thought about and wondered about where time has gone.

More recently someone has figured out that we have 28,000 days in an average life. I wonder whether others who lived shorter lives in previous generations fooled around with figuring out the number of days in their lives. Perhaps computers have made the job easy enough that we can indulge and gratify our need for such information. 

Life, when you think about it, doesn’t come with guarantees or assurances or money-back offers. Instead one day we wake up to consciousness and change our lives and those of our parents forever.

Some of us are, or become over time, pretty happy to be alive. Others somehow live out their lives with most of us realizing they aren’t very happy at all.

For some time now I have been convinced that the late Ingrid Bergman had a point when she said, Happiness is good health and a short memory.

The longer you hold onto things, particularly things that did not and will not make you happier about your life, the less likely you are to be happy about them, and probably many other things you would probably normally have enjoyed about your life.

Some people say, life is what you make it. I think that whatever you see or feel about your life, when you decide to view it as a positive rather than a negative, you are perhaps closer to making it better than it otherwise would be.

Where you sit may tell you where you stand on an issue. In a similar way how you interpret an experience may make if feel it is either a good one or a bad one for you. This, might at least be something you can actually effect in your life.