Wednesday; March 29
When I was a youngster and had a bad day – or a series of bad days – the joke was that I was going to run away and join the circus. I have grown older and am not all that fond of circuses, so my response to difficulties these days is that I am going to run away and buy my own island. The issue to this sort of problem-solving (other than all the good islands are either take or unaffordable) is that wherever I go, I am there. In essence, I can run away from a lot of things, but I can’t run away from my personality. Wouldn’t it be easier to change the way I look at life (and the way I actually live it) than to try to hide from my problems? I remember a song I used to hear when I was a younger that encouraged, “Brighten The Corner Where You Are”. The moral of the song was that we all have the opportunity to reflect positivity – but our influence starts inside us and emanates from within our small area of influence. Our impact may not be expansive, but it is real. Even if we don’t ch