By Charlene M. Brown
Does that old Bruce Springsteen song come to mind? In it he talks about trying to get back to a time ubiquitously BEFORE, when life was much simpler and happier!
In times like this recession we are supposedly having, I’m sure we can all relate to that!
But let’s think about this for a second, do we really want to go back to a time before? What about making every moment count, Right Now!?
Okay, so sometimes I want to resign all my adult responsibilities and go back to being ten-years-old. Except that I don’t really want to do that, I just want a break from whatever adult responsibility I happen to be carrying out right then!
Really, I would rather not do pre-adolescent or teenager again, and in fact I like being an adult! But what is it that so many of us proverbially want to go back to?
Hmmm . . . . .
I think it is a time where we weren’t in control of our lives (well, are we really in control now?); when it was someone else’s responsibility to make sure things were done. Someone picked out our clothes for us, someone woke us up for school, someone packed our lunch or gave us money for lunch, someone else was responsible for taking us to the doctor, making sure our health was in order, everything!
Let’s face it, 10-year-olds don’t do much for themselves; even “independent” ones don’t really do a whole lot absolutely on their own—there is always some sort of guidance system, usually called Mom and or Dad!
Now who is that guidance system? That responsibility (there’s that word again), now falls on US, instead of somebody else. Now, we are responsible for buying or packing our own lunches, getting ourselves up for work, making and making sure we get to our doctor’s appointments. Part of the Rites of Passage into Adulthood is that responsibility magically shifts to us to do all the things for ourselves that someone else used to do for us!
But that’s actually the beauty of it!
Most 10-year-olds, if they have the “right” to choose at all, it is from a very limited set of choices (“You’ll do it because I SAID SO!” 
).
But we, as adults, have so many more choices (well, 10-year-olds actually have these choices too, but it is probably a good parenting choice not to tell them this or pretty soon, we might have 10-year-olds trying to take over the world, Pinky and The Brain Style, but I digress . . . .)
I was saying that as adults, we have so many more choices that we can make! And even WE don’t know this all the time. Sometimes we forget, or sometimes we never realized in the first place!
But guess what! Every day, you have the right to choose what kind of Day you are going to have. True, you can’t choose all of the things that will happen to you in any given day. But You CAN choose how you react to them! And unlike most 10-year-olds, you are probably more aware of your emotional scale and what actions trigger certain feelings on your part!
So here is my suggestion: instead of trying to figure out what is so miserable about your day, work on looking at what is so Grand about your day. This one little trick will soon have you thinking of your life TODAY as a great adventure that you can’t wait to go on Every Single Day!
We are the Mistresses of our Own Universes! Now we have to Claim it!
Go, Be A Goddess Today!
Do You Love Your Life Now!? I DO! (Because I KNOW I always have the right to choose!)
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- Judging By Your Relatives: Don’t Make That Mistake!
- Drawing The Spotlight: Every Little Step You Take!
- Scaring the Skeletons Away!
- Oh, The Choices We Make!
- Choosing Change!
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