First person to eat a banana: “This is awful!”
First person to peel a banana: “This is good!”
I struggle we maintaining perspective on all that is going on in my life and the lives around me. Ten and a half years since we moved to Oregon, and I still find myself asking: “Why?” Some days, I have the answer. Other days are a bit more confounding. Nevertheless, I know, without regrets, that I sometimes just have to peel the banana.
The purpose(s) for that which happens in our lives is not always clear at first look. Sometimes we have to look deeper. Sometimes life is less like a banana and more like (to paraphrase the wise ogre, Shrek) an onion.
Sometimes, to adjust my grattitude (gratitude + attitude), I simply need to peel back the layers. It takes a little more patience than I sometimes have.
Today, I am that person trying to eat the first banana. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have the sense to peel it before eating. And, after that, maybe I might make banana cream pie (sugar-free, of course!).
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!