Somewhere over the rainbow.....

Do you ever have days where you wish that you were Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz?

Not me....

I do sometimes wish that I were somewhere over the rainbow however.

These past couple of weeks have been rough ones. Having some unknown person rifle through my possessions was disconcerting. Then to have said person(s) steal my possessions, well that was just down right nasty. Thievery sucks.

To make matters worse, I've had a little breast cancer scare. The jury is still out on that one. I have to arrange to have my mammaries squished and bombarded with radiation. Then, depending upon those results, a biopsy may be in order. Cancer sucks.

In spite of it all, I'm optimistic.

We get to choose how we respond to our circumstances in life. It would be so easy to lose myself in my own anger and my own fear; but I refuse to do so. Life is too good, too precious, to waste on such things.

That's not to say that I don't allow myself to feel those emotions. I feel them all right and then I let them go. If I hang on too long, those powerful feelings will dig deep and begin to define the person I am. I won't have that. That's a kind of death in and of itself.

I choose life, this life.

Don't you see?

Somewhere over the rainbow is right here...