A ride with the Bride

Dear Friend,

Greetings from somewhere in Europe. I do not know what time it is. I have no idea where we are. I'm not sure where we're going. I'm only partially convinced we're on the right train. Oh, and for added clarification, this is the picture of a Bride who just spend twelve hours in an unheated train station after spending eleven hours on a plane. She's just discovered that her place of respite for the night is appropriately sized for a small child in a coma. And look at the smile on that face. Why? Because it's an adventure.

She has no idea there's a train strike by engineers, and we're about to be stopped for four hours in the night outside of Frankfurt, without warning or explanation. She doesn't know that her husband is about to get an award winning combination of pink eye, influenza, and COVID, causing him to sleep for two straight days. She's as yet unaware that her daughter has been spending the last four months in a third floor walk up covered in black mold. She has no idea that her husband has double booked a hotel in one town, and no has hotel booked in another. No. That's not the smile of someone weighed down by worry. That's the perfect picture of a Bride ready for a great adventure.

That's why you are going to be all right, dear one. Attitude is everything. And it's the once choice you have, most days. A pilot friend of mine, who my baby boy had somehow christened "Rooster Pancake" called it the Law of the Plane. Simply put, Attitude, the way you address your horizon, determines your Altitude, how high you soar. It's one of those pretty simple life truths that ends up being incredibly dynamic.

I know you struggle with anxiety. (Big secret reveal: we all do). Here's a choice you can make. Each morning, before your feet hit the ground, chose to ask. "All right, God of the Galaxies. What grand adventure do you have for me today." It sure will be a better way to begin than worrying about whether or not you want to spend the next twenty years with walls that are ecru or egg shell white.

Or not. but I can tell you, I'd rather see the joy filled smile. Every day. Because it brings out the best in me.

thus spake,

me