FICKLEOCITY

Here we are. It’s today! It’s a great day to be alive! I love it. Can you remember yesterday? We don’t like to look back if the past presents bad memories. The past could be good. But if it were bad we would only use those bad memories to build a positive today. We can use good memories for the same purpose. But, TODAY is the day!

What will I do today to be a better, happier person? Right now I’m awaiting a substance abuse group I facilitate. I’ve learned that if I become frustrated and angry about waiting, I rob myself of purposeful living. I have decided that waiting is the time God has given me to write.

I have a wonderful gift. I can still think. I must watch what I think. I can have good thoughts about others and myself. I can have evil, malicious, hateful, ugly, or sordid thoughts about others and myself.

I had someone share something about me that someone else said. . .that should be enough said about that. There is always that proverbial someone said! Is it the person telling you or is it another? Who cares! Either way it is a subtle form of lying and backbiting. Today, criticism will be a red flag that I can use to improve and that is all. I will never feel worse about any of those folks who must think those thoughts or say those things. They are the ones with the problem. Now, that’s not to admit I don't have a problem. I have many. I will always try to be honest enough to admit them.

Perhaps the proverbial THEY didn’t feel that way before, at someday in the past. But that is the past and perhaps they did feel that way. But, it’s today! FICKLEOCITY! That is my new word for those who just can’t stay with people or opinions. It’s a great word for those who require more of you than they ever required of themselves in the same capacity. Fickleocity! It will grow in meaning the more it is used by the general public.

But: It’s a great day to be alive! It is going to be that way all day. If it happens to be my last day, I’m so glad I feel the way I do right now. I can be the same person today I was yesterday with one day's mental, emotional and spiritual growth. I refuse to entertain negative thoughts today. I will listen to negative people (they are around every corner waiting to pounce you) but I will not become part of their thought world. I refuse. Deliver me from FICKLEOCITY!