Left the house this morning feeling really gloomy, but 10 minutes into my journey I met a little ray of sunshine who helped me see that life is really not at all bad and that success is not measured by material things but by relationships.
That sounds awful – and normally on reading something like that I’d be rolling my eyes and sticking two fingers down my throat, but I’m not. She didn’t give me any advice or platitudes, in fact she just chatted, showed an interest and listened, but being with such a nice person focussed my attention on all the good things in my life, like my family.
I was able to let go of all the envious thoughts about houses and money that have been consuming me lately. What does it matter if I’m stuck in a noisy old dump at the moment? Make that noisy old dump a cosy little paradise (albeit a noisy, cosy little paradise), think about the good people who surround me and forget about the awfulness of the people above me. I’m not usually such a moan you know. I do quite often have low periods but compensate for them by having far, far more happy periods in my life. Peace, joy and contentment! That’s not the new me but it’s the usual me making a determined reappearance!
Isn’t that nice? I must say that even though I got on it with a little black cloud hovering above me, I stepped off the bus with a spring in my step – which is good going considering that I was stepping off it in Dalkeith!
Thank you Jane from Lauder for being my own little ray of sunshine.
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