It can be awfully easy to feel defeated. We try to do something fruitful and it doesn’t turn out perfectly. We try to say something to someone and it’s misinterpreted. We buy lottery tickets and get back a $2 return if we’re lucky. We submit a piece of our creative work to a competition but never seemed to get juried in. It feels hard.
We may turn to friends or a spouse for validation and a pep talk telling us things are rosier than we feel. But then we don’t fully believe their optimism because they’re biased after all – they love us. The bottom line is we can’t let random scenarios make us feel bad. Odds are it’s not personal but just circumstantial. We shouldn’t always look to someone else to make us feel okay either. It isn’t fair to them.
Maybe we need to just have our down time. Feel it. Own it. Then find something just as random but positive to latch onto and get back up and begin again. It can be a small, positive image or moment. Here – borrow my fortune cookie from the other night. I choose to believe this message because cookies are unbiased and ALWAYS correct.
Kelly E. James 