Satisfaction and Celebration

On my bucket list I have complete a Masters in Curriculum & Instruction. Yesterday I completed half of the requirements. It is feel goods! Not like I'm doing a jiggy dance good, however, it is an accomplishment. I am not a young duck. Getting my mind back into the world of being a student has been a challenge. I did it! I feel good about having done it, and by goodness I shall celebrate me! We should celebrate ourselves more. Not just the big things...let's celebrate brushing our teeth. Lets celebrate a hair cut! Hey I changed the oil in my car, good for me! I remembered to get my prescriptions filled - good remembering! Yesterday, I steamed the the floors and they look marvelous - We should celebrate one another. I talked to my best friend yesterday and you know what she is just the best person in the world. She is and I am celebrating her. I am celebrating my sister and my lover and my mother and my daughter and my niece! I am celebrating my friend who will not have movie night until I am 80, but she talks a good game and I will take that. The Mets won yesterday - we are not in first place but we are really close. Most sports pundits picked us to finish last; yes I know I say us, and I don't play for the Mets they are my team and I am a part of them. So, yes WE the Mets won yesterday. Let me celebrate my friend - a beautiful young lady whom I once babysat for and is now a grown-up mommie with two of the most beautiful children I have ever seen, and my Bug A Boo - a beautiful, intelligent, independent, strong, successful woman; Jeez I could not feel more proud! And her Mom - her mom is a pistol, fully loaded and ready to shoot! While I have lost many people I can still celebrate them. I can celebrate them because were it not for them I would not be here. Each person who has known me has shaped me, though I am not perfect, I try - Let's celebrate trying! We don't always succeed but by goodness let us celebrate the act of trying - not fake trying with a lot of noise and attention, but the real trying. The when your by yourself and no one is watching trying - this is what matters. The nights we stay awake pondering how we can do better the next day trying. Life is about celebrating and being satisfied. Changing our perspective so we see that glass as half full. It is a change in perspective - My glass is half full of Mountain Dew, and this is good! When it is less than half full then I know my thirst is quenched, so I am satisfied! See, we can all become the happy fulfilled versions of our best selves if we celebrate what we have, celebrate our satisfactions, and celebrate one another. I celebrate the wonderful woman who has gifted me with her love and chosen me to spend her life with - I am no picnic. She has put up with a lot, and she has hung in there and by goodness everyone should celebrate her - If we are lucky to know we are loved we should be celebrating that. Feeling love gives us strength which allows us to move mountains or lift up golf carts, or tolerate pain, then smile when that time of challenge has past. Heck, let's celebrate those mountains! On the climb up there we should look forward to the beautiful vista which awaits us. All that huffing and puffing only strengthens our hearts. So, yes, mountains - we celebrate you. Poor service at a restaurant, that's a tough one - how can we celebrate poor restaurant service, I'll think of something and get back to you.