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Let Your Gratitude Be Set By your Attitude!
Sometimes we just need a little perspective.
Since we passed Remembrance day recently, I was thinking of the people that lived during the First World War. I am specifically thinking of those that stayed at home and how they managed.
I have always felt I can do almost anything as long as I know the time frame. That way I can set my mind to managing a certain amount of pain or upset.
Sometimes I use this for things like schooling. I can tell myself that it will be done in a couple of years and then I can go where I want, buy things with money I will have, and never do homework again … hah! I can see the future and I know how long it will take. I make a plan.
Even when things change, simply because they do, I can then reset my expectations. When you are talking about this concerning school or getting simple surgery it sounds so trite. And really when it comes to most things it is.
The biggest issue, at least for me, is not knowing. If someone had said back at the beginning of COVID, “Alright, we are going into a lockdown. There will be a lot of upset, divisions in the communities, and even in families. There will be deaths like we haven’t seen before in our lifetime and we will be changing how we work. We are going to change our way of…
