"Happiness is not the
absence of problems ...
Rather, it is the ability
to deal with them."
I like that quote.
I wish I'd known half-a-century ago.
So much of my life was wasted as I kept hoping old hurts would cease to exist without intervention on my part.
Foolish fantasy.
The day finally came when I faced facts as they were and not as I wished with all my heart they could be.
And what a day of reckoning that turned out to be. Incoherent debris stored in the depths of my soul for decades began flying every direction.
Cleaning up behind such an epiphany was the hardest work of my entire life but by the time order was restored, firm boundaries had been established around my beliefs and around my heart. Knowing I would never again grovel at the feet of cruelty filled me with a peace I had never experienced before.
Recently, someone from the past reached out ... pretending one thing ... meaning another ...
I immediately understood the thinly veiled attempt to manipulate me.
It didn't work.
It never will again.
Happiness truly is the ability to deal with problems.
email: MelindaGerner@Yahoo.com
