Make a Difference

Sometimes life is better than others.  Sometimes life for one is better than for another.  Perspective plays a big role in this but also the people you surround yourself with make a huge difference.  I was contemplating something my kids said yesterday…..

Saturday morning:  house full of kids and a mom, all of which had very little sleep.  It could have made for a very ugly thing.  The kids have fun on their agenda; mom has the tornado stricken house on hers.  I start sounding like my mom all of a sudden… “We are not going anywhere until this house is clean” totally expecting to be met with resistance.  They all get up and start cleaning?  Ok go with it….

I walk into the kitchen; son and daughter are in the extremely small kitchen at the sink doing dishes… mom is perplexed but happy.  Daughter says “look, at dads we can’t get along while doing the dishes, but here we work together”.   I didn’t think to ask her why that was but I should have.

All day all I pondered why this happens… all the time… everywhere…  We can get along with certain people some of the time, depending on our situation or surroundings….

Like it or not we are affected by the people we give our time to, if they are negative we become negative. If they are positive we tend to be more positive.  The old phrase “shit rolls down hill” really does apply to every day of our lives, but it doesn’t have to be shit…. We alone can change the atmosphere if we are not willing to let others moods and opinions affect us.  “It is harder to bring someone up than to pull them down” is another phrase that comes to mind but notice it doesn’t say it is impossible… just harder…

Make it your goal today to make someone in your life happier, you never know what their real struggle is. Your smile and kind words could make a difference.