JUMP OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING TO LIVE!

How are you today? You feel worthless, you say. Nobody likes me. I don’t even like myself. Probably God doesn’t even like me. Perhaps you feel so outcast you think you should just get on the Wal Mart parking lot and hold up a sign, Will Work for Food! The world might just be better off if I weren’t breathing up all the air.

We all get depressed. We all feel very insecure sometimes. If you feel your friends and peers dis you or trash you or whatever you feel—remember, it is only a feeling. This too will pass! If it seems to happen all the time, just ask the question, Why me? I know it hurts when you are on the receiving end and it seems like an endless stream of those who dish it out.

Have you ever felt like a worn-out football? You know—kicked around, squashed, thrown from here to there and all your paint is coming off? You’re worn to a frazzle! Tired of the action!

You may not want to hear what I am about to say, but, CHEER UP! Try it. Remember: act as if. . . Act as if you felt good, better, or best. Act as if you could go out and have a great day and then get up and do it. Act as if someone else is extremely important to you and get out there and do something for him/her. Run down to Wal Mart and hand one of those guys a dollar. (I wasn’t belittling those folks even a little bit. I feel for them).

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water he will hop out every time. Put him in cold water and slowly heat it. The frog will sit there and boil to death. I have never tried that but it is one of those things anyone will tell you, Sure! It’s absolutely true! Continue putting yourself in bad situations and thinking negatively and eventually you’ll just accept all that as normal. You will be like that poor old frog in cold water. Before you realize it you are in deep trouble.

Don’t forget—all of life is a choice. Be the frog thrown into hot, boiling water. Choose to get out of that bad, negative, defeating attitude or feeling. Recognize yourself, not as a frog but as a prince or princess. Remember, the frog didn’t jump out to die. He jumped out to LIVE! And live he did. And, he finally came to the conclusion, Life isn’t so bad after all! Then as time progressed, he woke up one morning and screamed, Boy do I feel great! Do you know what? I bet he had a great day that day. Try it! I think you’ll like it. If you don’t think you would, write me and tell me why. If you do, write me anyway. Know I love you or I wouldn’t have written this. h