“You don’t know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.”
~ Joan Bauer

I’m a planner. I like to plan. I’m not suggesting that I don’t like to be spontaneous, I do, I just have a harder time with the unexpected. You can imagine then how difficult and almost maddening it is to live in a world that is constantly throwing curve balls and derailing me from my original plan. You’d think by now with my 35+ years behind me I would be use to it, all the changes, but I’m not. Secretly I just wish everything would move according to plan.

But I know, and have embraced the fact that in this life that’s never going to happen so I’m trying harder to make a conscious effort to take life as it comes. When I sit back and really look at each situation individually I realize how much more I would get out of a situation when I choose to see the good instead of focusing on the change.

Case in point. Airlines are among my biggest pet peeves. I admit, as of late I have had amazing luck, but there have been plenty of times when I have not. It’s hard to try and find the silver lining when your vacation is waiting for you to arrive and you’re stuck in Dallas (no offense to Dallas, but I was suppose to be in Spain and I was in TX), but I know it can be done. Perhaps it would give me a chance to meet someone new or find a new book or take some interesting photographs.

Motherhood is probably the best example of this. I can’t count the amount of times my day has been derailed by a sick child or sleep that has been lost at the expense of mothering. Although these are not my favorite situations, I realize they have always offered me more time with my little one that I have always been grateful for.

It’s definitely easier said than done to find the silver lining, like I said, it’s hard for me to adjust. Normally my flight or fight kicks in and I do what needs to be done, but unfortunately there’s usually a level of grumpiness that creeps in I wish wouldn’t come. I am working on it day to day, and wouldn’t you know, am getting lots of practice.

Life happens, plans change, and as you know often there’s not a whole lot we can do to get back to where we started. Life has a way of twisting and turning and taking us to places we never intended to go, but I think that’s exactly what needs to happen. I believe there is a way for each one of us, but the way we think is best may not be the way we need to go. What I’m trying to say is we really don’t know what’s all in store for us, we don’t know all we need to learn and what our experiences will teach us so we should embrace everything, the ups and downs that come our way, and trust it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

It’s too bad just because I know something doesn’t mean it’s easy to do. Perhaps one day, but for now, like I said, it’s a good thing I’m getting lot of practice. 🙂

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