You never know

 A former co-worker of mine committed suicide this week. A fairly young attorney who had so much to live for. I honestly can't  figure out what could be so bad that it was worth killing himself over. We probably will never know. There are plenty of rumors circling around, but the honest truth, we will never know. Even though we may think we know someone, do we ever truly know someone? If a friend of ours did something today, would it be something that we consider normal or a total surprise to us? Do we take the time to know people? Are we a positive force to people every time we see them? Or are we just one more negative thing that they have to deal with? My I am just saying for the day, we never truly know what a person is going thru. We may call ourselves best friends with a person and have no clue as to what is going on in their mind. Try to be  positive and uplifting to people always. You never know what effect you might have.

Reset Button

Today I was on the phone for over an hour with a tech support guy. We were trying to figure out what was the deal with my modem/router. It would connect to some pages, but other ones it would not connect to. Oddly enough after an hour he asked me did I want to just reset the thing and see if that would work. I hesitated at first, but decided to go ahead and do it. What do you know, it worked. Even the tech guy was surprised because he thought it was my DSL service. This made me think how many times in life I have passed up hitting my 'reset' button for fear of the outcome. My I am just saying for the day, if you never press your 'reset' button in life, you will forever live in fear and regret. For you will never know if the task at hand will work or not. Even if it doesn't work out, at least you can say that you tried, you can never say that if you don't.

Furniture Confinement

Today after many years, my mom allowed me to move the furniture in her living room around. It is has never been moved since they moved into their house. As we were moving furniture around, it occurred to me that my mother had been held hostage by her furniture. You see, until I actually started to move the furniture, my mother didn't think she had the time to do it and she didn't see her living room any other way then how it was. As the moving progressed, we found tons of stuff that she had forgotten about and didn't even know was there. We found (and recycled) 22 phone books that were in her living room. I know your thinking , 22 phone books! What's wrong with your mom! I know, I know, I thought the same thing. But, it isn't that my mother is lazy or a bad housekeeper (she's actually quite good). It's that she thought that she didn't have the time, nor energy, nor space, to move anything around, but she was wrong. Once she was motivated, and when I actually started to move her sofa, the time, energy, and space worries disappeared. Do you feel that same way about your space, or things that or going on in your life? My I am just saying for today; don't be confined by the things in your life. Don't let the furniture (or whatever is), confine you to a space that you don't want to be in. Grab that sofa and move it to where you want it to be!!