Discouraged

Yesterday and today were harder.  My body is stiff and in pain.  Sleep is elusive again.  Which means I’m exhausted when I wake.  Days are hard; foggy.  I have doubts.  And fears.

My hips are less painful but my butt hurts.  And the parts of my back and neck that didn’t hurt, now hurt.  It’s adjusting to the correctness, I think.   And all the months of accommodation. 

Humans are amazingly adaptable.  My  muscles know how to be out of alignment.  They don’t know how to be correct.

Sometimes I think my head is that way, too.  It knows how to be confused and doubtful and afraid.  It doesn’t always remember what I know now - that I’m capable and smart and well-liked.  When I hurt, I hurt physically, emotionally and mentally.   

But tomorrow is a new day.  6:00 am I have a chance to be helpful.  To show people who don’t know how reach out and find common ground and achieve a common goal and feel good when it’s done.   And that I like.

 

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” - Dale Carnegie.