Are you part of the majority who are going to use “2020” as curse word to describe anything icky enough to be a sh*t storm?
That was me a few weeks ago, but I had a brain storm that most of us will mentally move ahead when the clock strike 12 am January 1, 2021……… like that 1 minute in time is going to “magically” erase everything that was hard for us during 2020 (and yes it has been tough for all (me the eternal optimist included in the all), to live through it.) But for many, life is always 2020 inside their head and their lives……….. and that isn’t going to change when Ryan Seacrest does whatever he and the NYE gods are going to do to usher in 2021!!!!!
That thought gets 5 !’s because it is important for me, and hopefully for you too.
No doubt 2020 has been challenging in so many ways, but there are many people who have had good and happy things in the mess. Engagements, babies, new businesses and so many more blessings….. and some of us have been staying hopeful that somehow it would all work out for the best.
If you’re personally on the struggle bus, you’re probably ranting and cursing my words in your head or out loud. That’s good and that was me 4 years or so ago too. But I have reached an age and lived enough to accept and know that all I can control is my reaction to the cards life deals me.
I have come to accept that hardships are put in our path to teach us. The vision inside my head for this life lesson is a wind-up toy mouse put in a maze (I am an animal lover so no real mice). Well this tightly wound up mouse keeps on banging into the dead-end wall of that lab maze. Can you picture the mouse constantly banging into the same place???? There are only 2 outcomes:
- The mouse’s batteries will die, end game for everything
or
- The mouse will shift slightly with each bump in the wall and MOVE
In my mouse example, the shift could be slight, or it could be BIG…. the shift level is US and our thought process. We can either move a little and bang again or we can consciously decide to make the steps we need to find the path to get to a better place.
Yes, that is me an overly complex thinker nothing like you might imagine me to be. Maybe I am way deeper than you thought, or I am “crazier” than you thought. That is all ok because that’s your business, not mine. I see things very differently than most people. Always have, always ill even if it is frustrating for others.
I am here to be the best human I can be. For me, a lot of how I live life revolves around gratitude (for everything, not just the good), spreading kindness, seeing value and purpose in everyone/everything and being true to myself. I was put here with a purpose and a message to spread. After 53 rides around the sun with 9/11 and a global pandemic thrown into the mix, I see my purpose even more clearly each day.
Cue all the cheesy sayings and memes here. But we definitely need rain and storms to help clear the way. So on this mental health recognition day, these are the things weighing on my mind a lot.
xo, Tracy Lynne
The Lovely Spotted Flamingo 