Reflecting on Life Choices and Influences

Every day all of us experience people we work with, friends, relatives, neighbors and others that may be stressing, reflect perhaps a positive way about them, are a little bit angry, are happy with their lot in life or all sorts of other vibes that are part of their character.

Many of those people that present themselves with whatever influences are allowing circumstances beyond their control to drive how they react, feel and think.

As one of those who has gone through much of the influences in life that we all do, and for many reasons,  I have achieved a place in life of being a happy camper,  of feeling fortunate, of having a marvelous family, adult children, grandchildren and many of the things I dreamt about in my past.

As I reflect back on my influences, a strong willed parent and being a witness to what has been done to work around the negative and accentuate the positive is something that has come with time.  Having a positive attitude is not easy but it is something that can become part of a person’s personality if they work at it.

For many how they reflect their personality and their attitude is partly a well-protected veneer, but not necessarily the truth. That means if something out of the ordinary interferes with that well-protected veneer, the truth of how a person feels, or how a person thinks will rear it’s ugly head and a quick deep breath by the person will get the repair in the veneer in place so the perception of all being well with the world will once again be projected.

All of us who are fortunate to live in this great county should not and can not feel entitled, we need, all of us to earn where we are in life, learn to deal with adversity, learn to accept the things we can not change and as the saying goes, affect the things we can change.  That does not mean we can’t continue to strive for a better situation, strive for a better life, work hard to achieve results we want and all of that stuff. It just means within the sphere of where each of us are in life, there is a level we will get to which can work best for us. Brain power, being smart, knowing how to best use what has been given to us by a higher source and learning to be happy in life is, for many, a personal revelation that, once achieved, means we can all be happy campers.