Day 2

Well this morning, readers, was interesting. So before I get into anything heavy, I decided we should all take a moment and laugh at my morning.

It was around 7:30am, I got up with the amazing man in my life, while he got ready for work. Last night I had parked my truck behind him, so I needed to move it out of his way, and send him off. We live in a very small rural little hamlet, with nice neighbors, a post office, and a variety store. With that in mind, I figured no one is going to be getting up real early, no one is going to see what I'm wearing, so no big deal.

I went out in my red and blue plaid Pj pants, black house coat (that is missing it's tie up) and my clunky beige Timberland hiking boots. (Picture it and laugh, because it's not as pretty as it sounds.) I started the vehicles to warm them up, brushed the 3 inches of fresh snow off, said my good byes to Andre, and then felt like an idiot when he waved to our neighbor across the very empty cul-de-sac. I wish that I could honestly say this was the worst thing my neighbor has ever seen, but it isn't.

So after my fiance leaves for work, I park my truck back in the drive way so the snow plow does not get annoyed, quickly shovel the spot in front of our door, and attempt to go inside. We have a numeric lock on the door, because I suck with keys, and if ever you have one I warn you that sometimes they stop working in the cold weather. Yep, that was it. The door would accept the code, unlock, but the lever would not move the latch inside to let me into the house. I was officially locked out.

Since I had been home most of the week, I had been very efficient. I had latched all the windows, and the patio door. I had locked up my shed, and tools for the winter, etc. I couldn't even call Andre to come back because I hadn't taken my cellphone off the nightstand while I was leaving. I was outside, both pets in the house staring at me through the door, thinking that I look like hell, and if I can't find a way in, I'm going to have to go to a neighbor to use their phone, shirtless, with a house coat that won't do up, and looking like someone from "the hills have eyes" who just got out of bed.

Thankfully, I found a basement window that I had forgot to lock, and could climb in through. I slid it open, got down on hands and knees, and began climbing in while the Cat decided that my toes looked like they needed to be licked and batted at. While I was half way through, I looked up to realize, my neighbor behind our house, is in his yard, watching me, probably because he thought I was a burglar. That is until he realised it was me, is smiling like he's about to wet his pants from laughter, and waves saying "Hi Adam. Locked out? all good?".

When I got in the house, I almost died laughing at myself. I looked like an absolute idiot, and yet I didn't care. It was funny.

That was when I realized, I couldn't remember the last time I laughed so hard. I had worked every day, including most weekends, for my career, over the past four years. I hadn't stopped, laughed, or even enjoyed myself in so long, that I couldn't remember the last time I had laughed like this.

So today, I want everyone to stop for a minute, and laugh. Whether its at me, or at something stupid you can think you did today, whatever. Stop and Laugh, because in honesty, it finally felt Amazing.

You know Andre is smart, and he made me watch an Oprah You tube video, which really put things in perspective earlier in the week for me. I know when you think you tube, your thinking "just another fad video that popped up." The truth is that Oprah, and let's be honest its wise if Oprah said it, made a good point. She said that there is no such thing as failure, and you need to relax. She pointed out that when you fail at something, or do something wrong in your life, it's the worlds way of telling you, that you lost focus, and got off track. The only thing you need to do, is sit, calm yourself, relax, and figure out where your path is again, so that you can get back onto it.  (Watch the video clip)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=796092163770905

Oprah's right, which is an understatement and the point of Today. I forgot how to laugh at the little things, how to have fun in the crazy crisis driven world I was functioning in. I needed to have a forced to resign to find that part of myself again, and to figure out new goals for myself. The largest regret I have with coming to this understanding of my life, is that I knew this once.

In College I had a teacher who taught our counseling class. She made us begin the lesson each day, by making every student talk about one perfect moment. One moment that was impacting, positive, and moving, from our week. She told us that every day we needed to find that moment, because there was a ton of despair, misery, and sadness in the world, and that people would show us that as a counselor. It was our role to find the positive, find that moment of Awe in our own lives, so that we could find it in theirs and help shed light on it for them.

So today, laugh. Find something, as small as it could be, that brought you even a moment of joy to your day. Focus on that moment, embrace it, and remember; "There are no mistakes" You have a supreme Destiny to embrace, and you simply have to find it."There are no wrong paths, failure is just that thing that is trying to move you in a new path." - Oprah