A FEW MINUTES is better than NO MINUTES

      You may have WISHED that the FUN OF WATCHING a FOOTBALL GAME could KEEP GOING but the FINALITY is FINAL and the GAME IS OVER.

      You may have HOPED that everyone WOULD AGREE but THE TRUTH is that NOT everyone will AGREE ALL THE TIME.

      Even though you DON'T GET TOGETHER OFTEN you LUCKILY can TREASURE the MOMENTS you DO SPEND TOGETHER.

       Even though EVERYONE has a BUSY SCHEDULE we can still SQUEEZE IN TOGETHERNESS for A MOMENT HEAR AND THERE. 

       As long as WE ALL TRY to MAKE SPENDING TIME TOGETHER IMPORTANT then WE WILL ALL GET TOGETHER because IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US.

       What do YOU WANT PEOPLE TO REMEMBER ABOUT the TIME they SPEND WITH YOU?

       MAKE EVERY MOMENT TOGETHER with EVERYONE SPECIAL because it will be SPECIAL MEMORIES that EVERYONE will REMEMBER.

       DON'T THINK ABOUT what COULD'VE, WOULD, SHOULD'VE HAPPENED and ENJOY LIFE while YOU ARE LIVING IT and ENJOY WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.

       

     

     

     

You can't JUDGE A BOOK by it's COVER

     I worked with someone when I was young but  I THOUGHT was, well let's just say they were CONSTANTLY MISSING WORK.

     I THOUGHT that they seemed to MISS a lot of work and that made things HARDER for the rest of US. 

    But YOU LEARN HOW TO ADJUST to being SHORT HANDED and when you are a waitress that meant you might make about the same amount of tips but EVERYONE WORKED a lot HARDER for it.

     After a couple of MONTHS of WORKING with her I finally LEARNED EXACTLY WHY she was always MISSING WORK. 

     She told me how her CHILD was dealing with some serious HEALTH ISSUES.

      I felt HORRIBLE that I had BEEN ANGRY at her instead of BEING HAPPY TO FILL IN so that she COULD BE THERE when her CHILD NEEDED HER.

      So BEFORE YOU GET ANGRY at anyone at least FIND OUT WHY because they just might have GOOD REASONS WHY it was happening.

     When YOU BELIEVE IT is HAPPENING then YOU will REACT like it is WHETHER IT IS REAL OR NOT.

     STOP BEFORE YOU FORM YOUR OPINION and GET ALL THE FACTS so that YOU can make the RIGHT DECISION. 

      YOU can't JUDGE A BOOK by it's COVER. 

You CAN'T FORGET IT until YOU ADMIT IT so YOU CAN KNOW what to FORGET

       Trying to IGNORE IT DOESN'T MEAN that IT DIDN'T HAPPEN Because IT DID.

      PRETENDING that YOU DON'T SEE IT still means that YOU SAW IT but YOU ARE PRETENDING that YOU DIDN'T but the TRUTH is that YOU DID.

      LOOKING THE OTHER WAY only means YOU SAW IT but YOU LOOKED AWAY TRYING TO FORGET that YOU SAW IT.

      Have YOU ever TRIED TO FORGET SOMETHING  yet YOUR MIND CONSTANTLY REMEMBERS it OVER AND OVER AGAIN?

      YOU CAN KEEP FORGETTING IT TEMPORARILY but deep in YOUR MIND whenever it gets a chance that MEMORY COMES UP because THE TRUTH ALWAYS DOES.

     BEFORE YOU CAN FORGET IT then YOU NEED TO ACCEPT that IT HAPPENED so YOU CAN ACCEPT IT and JUST FLUSH IT out of YOUR MIND.

     LIES will DESTROY YOU but THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. SO ACCEPT IT so YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD FLUSH OUT OF YOUR MIND.

     To PROTECT YOURSELF YOU should always BE HONEST with YOURSELF.

LOOK and YOU might be SURPRISED at WHAT YOU FIND

       I started to CLEAN OUT my closet but I ended up APPARENTLY SHOPPING because I had FORGOTTEN about a few things that I FORGOT THAT I HAD BOUGHT.

       I was LOOKING IN BOXES that had BEEN THERE FOR YEARS and FOUND that I HONESTLY had FORGOTTEN about MANY things.

      I REMEMBERED when I was at a CREATIVE WRITING CLASS a couple DECADES AGO and one day OUR ASSIGNMENT was to WRITE about WHAT YOU FIND in a BOX IN YOUR CLOSET that YOU FORGOT about.

       So then as I SAW A BOX I would TRY TO GUESS WHAT was INSIDE IT.

       And I FOUND MANY FUN THINGS that I was EXCITED to FIND and it DIDN'T COST ME A PENNY.

      I was TELLING my friend about how much FUN it actually was CLEANING OUT MY CLOSET. 

      I SENT HER A PICTURE of a STACK of things that I FOUND that I knew I DIDN'T WANT to KEEP ANYMORE.

      And believe it or NOT my friend SAW SOMETHING that she NEEDED in MY PILE so she was able to SHOP FOR FREE TOO.

      One day ASK yourself what is in that BOX IN YOUR CLOSET? Then one day when you have time YOU can LOOK INSIDE of it and HAVE FUN 😊 

     

      

Your DIFFICULTIES can turn out to be......

      I will NEVER FORGET the day we had the COOKING STRUGGLE WE had because it turned out to be an AWESOME MEMORY WE HAD TOGETHER.

      I will NEVER FORGET the BUMPY ROAD WE HAD that LEAD US to OUR EXCITING ADVENTURE.

    I will NEVER FORGET the day we had GETTING WET FROM ALL THE RAIN because WE COULDN'T FIND MY CAR.

     Of course GETTING WET was NOT OUR PLAN but WE will ALWAYS REMEMBER the FUN WE HAD THAT DAY even though WE WERE COLD AND WET.

     NOT EVERY MEMORY YOU TREASURE is PLANNED but EVERY MEMORY YOU MAKE is SPECIAL MEMORIES that YOU SHARED TOGETHER.

     Of course if WE COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT WE WOULD HAVE but the TRUTH IS that it was ONE OF OUR FAVORITE MEMORIES WE SHARED TOGETHER.

       YOU MAY NOT THINK YOU NEED IT but sometimes YOU NEED TO FACE YOUR STRUGGLES in order to GROW UP to be HAPPY AND HEALTHY.

      What YOU LEARN WHILE YOU ARE LEARNING IT is FULL OF HAPPY MEMORIES YOU MADE to LEARN WHAT YOU NEEDED TO LEARN.

       LIFE is FULL OF MANY THINGS that can ONLY BE LEARNED BY LEARNING IT.

      WE EACH ONLY HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE so ENJOY YOUR LIFE WHILE YOU ARE LIVING IT.

     

Making NO DECISION YET means you have TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW to REACT

      The MOMENT that something HAPPENS that is NEGATIVE TOWARDS YOU then YOU KNOW that it will MAKE YOU ANGRY.

      That is a NATURAL REACTION when ANYTHING NEGATIVELY HAPPENS TO ANYONE.

      But HOW YOU REACT to WHAT HAS HAPPENED to YOU is UP TO YOU.

     If YOU REACT NEGATIVELY TO IT then YOU KNOW that YOUR NEGATIVE REACTION is DEFINITELY MAKING THINGS MORE NEGATIVE for EVERYONE. 

      If YOU STOP for a MOMENT AND THINK BEFORE YOU REACT then YOU WILL REALIZE that if YOU WANT the BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME to ANYTHING then DON'T DO ANYTHING ANGRILY.

      Sometimes it is BEST TO SAY NOTHING AT ALL and then sometimes YOUR POSITIVE REACTION could bring a POSITIVE OUTCOME despite everything that is happening.

       EVERY THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND can DECIDE HOW YOU SEE THINGS which DETERMINES HOW YOU WILL REACT.

       If YOU WANT A POSITIVE OUTCOME then THINK POSITIVELY or...... 

       It's YOUR CHOICE so CHOOSE WISELY and if a NEGATIVE THOUGHT POPS UP IN YOUR MIND then JUST FLUSH IT.

      

ONE MINUTE YOU LIKE It the NEXT MINUTE YOU DON'T

      Just because YOU LOVED the TASTE OF IT then OUT OF THE BLUE YOU NO LONGER ENJOY THE TASTE OF IT is MORE COMMON than YOU THINK.

     When my Uncle and I try COOKING some OLD FOODS FROM OUR CHILDHOOD we are surprised that they DON'T TASTE as GOOD as WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD..

     When things we HAD DONE MANY TIMES BEFORE GO WRONG IN LIFE we REALIZE that WE DID WHAT WORKED BEFORE yet for SOME REASON it DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE.

     The FUN I had DOING CERTAIN EVENTS when I was in MY TWENTIES NOW gives ME a HEADACHE IF I TRIED TO DO IT TODAY. 

      And it TURNS OUT that the OLDER I GET the MORE IMPORTANT THINGS I USED TO DO is NOW in the I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYMORE LIST.

      When YOU ARE YOUNG YOU are FULL OF ENERGY and YOU END UP USING YOUR ENERGY TO DO FUN EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES.

    But THE OLDER YOU GET the MORE YOU REALIZE that the MORE REST YOU NEED TO GET TO STAY HEALTHY.

     LIFE is FULL OF EXPERIENCES but SOME THINGS YOU GOT TO DO THEM at THE RIGHT TIME OF YOUR LIFE to BE ABLE TO DO THEM AT ALL.

      REMEMBER.....YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU WANT TO DO IT BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT WHILE YOU ARE ABLE TO but if YOU NO LONGER WANT TO DO IT THEN DON'T DO IT.

      WE EACH ONLY HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE so ENJOY EVERY MOMENT THAT YOU HAVE DOING WHAT YOU CAN DO WHILE YOU ARE LIVING IT.