Spring has sprung...

Spring is here in all it's glory.  The Easter bunny has come and gone leaving foil wrapped chocolate happiness in his wake.  Flowers are blooming, the grass is green, people are working in their yards and there is a sense of excitement and renewal in the air.  I love the spring.

I thought I might feel different about spring this year given we had no winter to speak of.  We haven't had our heat turned on in months now (US natural gas surplus?  You're welcome...).  But it must just be a calendar driven thing.  The feeling that everything is new again comes each year whether we expect it or not.  Or maybe it has something to do with the sound of lawn mowers and weed whackers in the neighborhood.  Renewal must be mowed...

I'm feeling ready to make a mad dash into spring.  I've gotten caught up since 2012 started on things I've let slide over the past couple of years, and am having relatively good results in my efforts to make changes in my life based on what Cushing's has taught me.  I'm working at easing up on myself.  Seeing the good in every day and not falling back into life patterns that do not include appreciating the things I have.  Drama doesn't interest me the way it used to.  I was never into reality shows, but they are even more ridiculous to me than they were before...and I didn't think that was possible.  Life is too short for drama.  It doesn't matter.  It doesn't bring anything to any one's life and on no one's deathbed will they utter the words "I wish I'd had more drama".  Our goal should be to make each day the best day ever and to change the things that keep that from happening.

We all have the choice of how to react to things.  We have the choice of what to say and how to feel.  Yes, how to feel.  You do not have to accept the initial response you have.  We can talk ourselves down and bring reason in.  It may take a while, but it's possible.  I've had to do it alot over the past couple of years, and it's making it easier to deal with things now.  It's hard to get my knickers in a knot over a line at the post office when I've had to be OK with a medical condition I never expected and that has no foreseeable end.  Perhaps it's what I needed to adjust my type A tendencies.  The Universe is funny that way.

So go forth and adjust your thinking in the name of Spring.  Contemplate life while mowing the grass.  Snip some flowers to enjoy inside instead of just walking by them every day.  Smile for no reason.  And live life as drama free as possible.  Do it for me!