It's My Life - Positive Spin - Tuesday August 21

 

Putting A Positive Spin on Life

Have you seen the movie Pollyanna? I loved that movie when I was a little girl. I was nothing like Pollyanna when I was a child. Like most children I blamed misery on "circumstances beyond my control." Of course, I grew up, and in time I learned that happiness is a choice - one I have to make every day.

 

Things I "Pollyanna" in my life:

1. Photographs that don't always turn out as I'd like. (Mosaic Moments™ helps me make the best of them.)

2. Meals that don't look like the picture in the recipe book. (Just because it isn't pretty, or doesn't taste as good as I'd hoped, doesn't mean it can't fill a tummy!)

3. Travel issues. Example - We got stuck on a bridge for over an hour. I had to use the ladies room REALLY bad so it was difficult to wait. I decided to get out of the car to enjoy the beautiful weather and the view. If we had not been stopped, and I had I not gotten out of the car and looked over the edge of the bridge, I would have never seen a pair of sting rays playing around in the water - it was such an unexpected treat!

4. Things I can't change. I like to be in control of my life and circumstances around me; but, I have learned to recognize where my role ends. (It isn't going to make my life better or easier or happier to fret over "those" things.)

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Comments

[Andrea Fisher]

Things I "Pollyanna" in my life:

1. The weather. When rain interrupts a day out. "The Farmers always need the rain."
2. Delayed schedules. Avoiding accidents on the road ahead of us."...that could of been us if we'd been on time..."
3. Unavoidable expenses (like car repairs) that make you change vacation plans, cut down on our school books, or fun, frivolous spending. Looking for minute vacation ideas, short, one day "events" to break up the routine, and plan "the next time...".

[Bevgardner]

1. The weather-we lived in the beautiful city of Seattle for 10 years while my husband got his Doctorate, and the rain didn't bother me, since I knew that it mostly came in the Winter. The Springs, Summers and Falls were gorgeous weather!
2. I've learned to accept the old scrapbook pages which I cringe at now when I look at them. I accept them and don't change them, as some of my friends do.
3. Bad-hair day-do what I can, Let what I can't fix go!
4.My garden this summer-so little rain, but I am not letting it bother me. I have mostly perennials, and they will come back (most of them, anyway) next year!
5. Books overdue at the library-I just enjoy the end of the book and pay the fine.