The sun sets on another day…
It was a stunning sunset and I pulled over just to get a picture. In the process, I smiled a the sky, laughed for a minute, and wiped away a tear. It was stunning as always, but in the sky, there was something more.
Every day we get the opportunity to define ourselves, our day, our responses, our very lives. As I have said over and over, do not whine about the past it is gone. Do not pine about the future, it does not exist yet. Instead define your best day, every day, and make it magnificent.
It is funny how that can work. We are the ones who define magnificence. We are the ones who define our very chart of accounts, so to speak, and how each of our days are measured. Some are good, some are not so good. None are as bad as we think as long as we can keep trying to make it better.
It’s funny how that becomes so easy to forget. It’s funny how we can easily rationalize that the day is bad and that it is not our choice that made it bad. In spite of a complete lack of control of the world we are in control of our karma or our destiny. We can take a lemon and make it into lemonade only because we decide to add the sugar water as a secondary item and shake it together making something good.
It’s easy to give up. It’s easy to let go of all of the positives in your life and embrace the negative. It’s far more difficult to stand up and say “I will not go quietly into the night” and in the process find a road far more positive and a series of events that will make you feel better about life.
As we look upon the roads behind us and the roads before us we have to realize that lives as a whole are not that long and every day lost is a day lost. Every day that we give in to anger, loneliness, or despair, is another day that we won’t be there feeling good about life.
A few days ago I was at a book signing and it was one of the largest festivals I’ve ever attended. My sales were not great. It was not to the level I am used to. I talked to hundreds of people and gave out over 400 bookmarks and over 200 cards to people who had questions, comments, or more. I met a few spectacular people and as I did I found that they were better than spectacular, I found some that may well become true friends. I found others that were not so great.
I could focus on the negatives, but why? Why in the world would we give in to looking only those things that made our lives worse. Why would we want to face that at all. We have to understand it, we have to overcome it, and then we have to keep on living and being that person that we could be, or should be.
I find it funny that I was inspired at this show to write an entirely different type of book. It started as one thing and it ended up as another. A cute little story to amuse someone, then that became a complex story that transcends time and builds a future out of nothing. After all, how can you build a future with no time at all? Perhaps the answer is to remove time from the equation. Outside of Time will attempt to do just that.
The world is a better place because you are in it. The world is different because of you. Accept the fact that every day is a chance to have a better day.
So as the sun sets on another day, let’s take a moment and enjoy ourselves. Let’s find a way to define today as the best day that today can be. Along the way remember you are special, and I think you’re special too, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and define this day…