perspectives and personal power

there's prolly nothing more obnoxious than pouring your
heart out to a friend and them telling you that you really
don't have a problem!

and um.....that's kinda exactly what i did to a friend yesterday.

i did preface it with it would sound really obnoxious and snotty
and i didn't mean it that way.....

that prolly didn't help much.

grin.

i wasn't all that bad about it......but still it's a point that's
hard to make sweet.

i told her i was finally figurin' perspective out. that it didn't mean i
didn't mope, cry, and wallow anymore! i'm real good at all of those
things.....it just meant that while i did those things i STILL had
a perspective.

all the problems i have, i can change.
i have power over them.
i don't have any horrible news comin' my way that i can't change.

if we have power over what's goin on.....how cool is that?!
those are the easy problems! even if they feel like the weight of
the world.

maybe they feel like the weight of the world exactly because we're
NOT handling them.

so let's get up and handle them.

it's entirely up to us.

so that when the big tragic unchangeable news comes our way...
and it comes in a thousand different forms to everyone.....
well, we'll know we didn't waste the good that we did have.

life is short!
i so want to grab it!!!