Looking back, I didn’t understand how it was possible.

All my hopes and dreams – no, my expectations – had crashed and burned.

A moment previous, our life was lifting like a rocket. All we had worked for was coming true before our eyes.

Suddenly, like a bad Sci-Fi movie, we, my family and I, were spinning out of control, headed for a sudden and explosive impact.

Our possessions, everything we had worked for and taken for granted were suddenly missing. Just gone.

I was in a quandary. Do I continue feeling and focusing on the wrongs my family and I suffered OR accept that I only see a tiny sliver of life – what happened. I can’t see the outcome – The Big Picture. I can remember other instances that when given time, things worked out differently than they initially appeared.

But until I forgive, I’m holding my family and myself within the box we find ourselves in.

As difficult and challenging as it would be, that was the key in getting over it. I didn’t realize it until later but accepting it was the price for my freedom to move beyond it . This is how I learned to make the best of whatever happens. To Live Full Tilt!

I can’t control the outcome. However, I can control my response; what I do next. Dwelling on it means I lost. They won. Continuing to give it energy means I’m giving it the very energy to consume my life.

In the alternative, when I can bring myself to acknowledge what happened and still choose that which I give my energy to, I can optimize my time and activities.

For, the other side of that coin is, I’m still here.

I can choose to energize; choose to optimize. Despite all that had happened and that all I had lost, I was not consumed by it.

It was a new day, and I faced a new challenge.

Life is what it is.

Until next time,
Joe

P.S. As the old truism goes – I acknowledged the truth and the truth set me free!