Monday June 14, 2021

Good Morning everyone, today is Monday June 14, 2021. A new week to look forward to, I wish I could tell you it’s a beautiful day however that is not possible once again. But that is very shortsighted of me because every day that we wake up and live our life is a beautiful day.

Now I have never been a fan of lawn signs, they tend to annoy me most of the time because I don’t think they do anything but show how people are different, it brings attention to that fact, your political views, racial division. But as I drive around I see a new kind of sign, signs that signify a person in that house is graduating from some school or another, these signs I like they show achievements by people.

I think as human beings and a society we live with certain expectations of our lives. Over the years these expectations have changed they are no longer so rigid. As children we were expected to do well in school that was our job and we were expected to do the best we could, so we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. As a newlywed, we wanted to do better than the generations before us to have the best in life, as parents we expected ourselves to raise perfect children that would excel in all aspects of our their lives. In our professions we expected ourselves to be the best , teacher, doctor, nurse, clerk, truck driver whatever you chose we were expect excellence. This attitude is wonderful to have it shows the ethics you have but sometimes those expectations are set to high and we wind up destroying or hurting ourselves with too much pressure. For many years I was victim to this, I always felt I could have done better. You wind up being unsatisfied with everything, and nothing is good enough. That is the problem with expectations. I fight that inner battle everyday. Covid did not help that, now I fell nothing is clean or safe enough but I realize the fault and am trying to rectify it.

That’s why now I am such an advocate of being happy and I seem to preach it everyday. Now I’m not a fool and want to live wreckless or in a gilded world, I know the realities and struggles of life we go through everyday. What I want is to find things as small or as large as you can handle just to bring a smile or some inner peace. In our world today we all need that.

So when I see those lawn signs of graduations it makes me happy to see achievement and the person sees their name in lights so to speak and they are proud of themselves, they know they have achieved something.. we all need to feel proud of ourselves for all we do and what we have accomplished this year alone. That creates happiness.

Well every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day, so it is out my window. Talk soon, Til Tomorrow!