Snow in Georgia...Not the Russian one....The Peach One..

So this huge storm hits on Sunday night a couple of weeks ago and everyone in a three state radius knew it was coming. And there was not a damn thing we could do about it. Just wait and wonder how big it would be and how long it would last. Kind of like a sorority girl on ....never mind that. It started me thinking about how little we actually control in life. And I think I have it narrowed down to one thing we have complete control over. One and only one. How can that be?


The two biggest events in our life are our birth and our death. And we have no control over either one. So if we have no control over the two most important things it seems that we wouldn't have any say over the rest of it. You can say you won't leave the house today and it can burn down and chase you into the street. You think you can control what you eat and drink? Not always. People in hospital beds with a tube down their throat feeding them dinner probably didn't wake up that morning expecting or planning that. So what is the one thing? Think about it.



That is the answer. What you decide to put into your head is the only thing you control. What happens to you during the day can be fairly random. Circumstances are almost always beyond your control. But how you choose to interpret them is your call. You cannot decide to win the lottery but you can choose to be happy about. Or mad because you had to split it with the third shift down at the local plant. That one is easy. The tougher the event, the tougher it is to put the right thought in your head. You find a twenty dollar bill. You are happy. You see a story on the nightly news about a family whose power has been turned off. You are sad. You try to donate the twenty dollars to the family but they cannot be reached because the phone is now shut off. You are sad and mad. You finally reach the family and give them the twenty dollars and the mother tells you that will make up for the twenty she lost going to pay the power bill. In the same parking lot you found it. Now how do feel?



I know that's a tough one. But the point is whatever you feel is what you choose to feel. Some will feel good, some bad and some relieved. Others will fell guilty. But everyone gets to choose. Nobody gets to put the thoughts in your head. So my humble advice would be to guard your thoughts. Don't let other people tell you how you feel. Or that your feelings aren't valid. And remember that if you get a choice for all your thoughts, you can choose positive over negative. Every time if you want. It's your choice. To quote the old knight watching over the cup that Christ drank out of in the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie, "Choose wisely".



Till next......