Thursday; March 21
Why can’t things be easy? Why can’t life just flow along without any rapids? In essence, why can’t things just go the way that I want them to go? The other day I was thinking about this as I reached into my desk drawer for another allergy pill. I like springtime, but I don’t like the way I feel throughout a lot of it. I sneeze, my eyes water and, when the pollen is really flying, I think my joints ache. As I reached into drawer I was fussing about why things couldn’t be better, then I realized that even though I had allergies, I live in a time when – for the most part – a small pill will correct most of what annoys me. Sure, I am impacted by the season, but when I follow a simple routine, it’s almost unnoticeable … or at least manageable. Let’s not get so focused on our problems that we forget to recognize the solutions. Various aspects of our lives may be less than perfect, but we have ways to deal with them so let’s appreciate the answers rather than focusing on the quest