In life you've gotta do what you can, where you are, with what you've got. You've also gotta believe in what you can, where you are, despite what you've got. As we get older this seems to get harder and harder... we believe less and want more... Do less and think more. When did we stop using our imagination and taking the time to enjoy things rather than judge them?
I was in line at Trader Joes Today and there was a mother in front of me with her little boy. He was surrounded by his toys and playing with a bag of chips. "No matter how many expensive toys he gets, he always finds something else to play with," his mother laughed.
I remember those days, using my moms old sheets to build hammocks in trees and boat sails in my room... Turning toilet paper rolls into bedazzled pencil holders... Turning into a mermaid every time I jumped into the pool... Always putting the extra in front of ordinary... making life extraordinary!!!
Sometimes we limit ourselves based on knowledge, past experience or judgements... We don't allow ourselves to see the extra in the ordinary because we take ourselves too seriously as 'grownups.' We think how silly would we look singing in the rain, playing with a floating flower, dancing on a park bench, with a box of crayons on our desk... instead of how good all of these things could make us feel.
When we open up to our dreams, let our imaginary friends have a say in our realities, suddenly our dreams start to become truth, because we believe again. We see things not as they should be, but as they could be, and suddenly they are. We look beyond what we're told and find what we love. Rather than complaining about all the things we don't have and waiting for all the things we want, if we take the time to appreciate and utilize all we have we might be surprised. It's like when you have no food left and haven't done groceries, and then end up making this delicious meal using the things you'd overlooked until then. How many things in life do we overlook that could be more than we see them as... how many situations are full of opportunities we never create because we are too busy looking for something else. Try looking at things, people, places, situations, the sky and whatever else you can in a new light today. What else is there? Maybe you'll find the thing you've been looking for has been here all along... Or maybe you'll find what has been looking for you.
When you spy with your middle eye, there is always enough, there is always something new, there is always a silver lining, there is always a way to make a boat out of a bed sheet.
Today's Silver Lining:
"Before you met me i was a fairy princess, I caught frogs and called them prince, And made myself a queen,
Before you knew me i traveled 'round the world, I slept in castles and fell in love, Because i was taught to dream, I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top, To capture Tinkerbell, They were just fireflies to the untrained eye, But i could always tell, I believe in fairy-tales and dreamers dreams like bed sheet sails, And i believe in peter pan and miracles, And anything i can to get by, And fireflies." Fireflies- by Faith Hill
Here's the song and CD, such a good one!!
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