I have to confess I‘m struggling with any beautiful perspectives today let alone the “beautiful perspectives on being happy” mentioned in the title. You seen I’m not very happy bunny today. In fact, I am feeling really rather stressed. The Jul/Aug Issue of the magazine has been a “pain in the proverbial” to finish. Whilst people were very happy to share with us their personal experiences of adoption or the inappropriateness of the “why don’t you JUST adopt?” question, fewer felt comfortable or confident enough to write any content for the magazine. This meant that Andrew and I had to do the research and the writing, or to be more accurate, we shared the research and I did the writing. Andrew will not mind me making this distinction because he freely admits to not being a “natural writer”.
Beautiful perspectives can be hard
On top of the extra work involved we’ve had multiple thunderstorms over the last ten days which means, at best we’ve had to unplug everything, at worst we’ve lost power. Added to that have been sick dogs, sick me, escaping dogs, potentially broken toes, potentially broken ankle, and a concussion. Yep, despite all the positive CANBACE vibes I’ve been sending out to the universe and wrapping myself up in, the past few weeks have been a struggle. It can be difficult latching onto beautiful perspectives on being happy.
Perhaps someone else’s beautiful perspectives on being happy will help ….
I’m getting there, yet not completely there. A little more work needs to be time. Now for some laughter; I simply LOVE this. How can I fail to beautiful perspectives on being happy after watching this …
Wonderful: something has changed. Despite all the spanners that the universe has chucked at me over the last few days it is still possible to find some beautiful perspectives on being happy that is helping me through a tough patch. Regardless of the stresses I am still happy. I can be happy with what I have achieved, and I can be excited about what is on the horizon. I love my new status and I am thrilled to see that other people are embracing the CANBACE idea as well.
I know that this is a much shorter blog than I have been writing over the last few days: however, I am not going to get stressed out by that either. Blogs should be as long as they need to be. This one doesn’t have to be long to get the point across, and it can’t be long because the pups are feeling neglected and need me to stop for the evening to give them some much needed TLC. Actually, we all need that “dog snuggling time” because Andrew is feeling as “vexed” as I am, as he struggles with FlipPDF software and YouTube share codes not behaving as they should. Besides tomorrow’s “And now for something completely different” will more than make up for today’s brevity.
Beautiful perspectives for the future
Talking of tomorrow, not only is tomorrow another day, there is another day after that too. The world is now full of possibilities to look forward to and I refuse to spend time being stressed about things that are, more often than not, out of my control.
So, this is all I have to share about my beautiful perspective on being happy.
In CANBACE friendship!
If anything I have written resonates I’d love to hear from you in the comments. I appreciate that this can be a difficult subject to speak openly about so if you don’t want me to publish your comment on the website please let me know and I will keep your words private.
Sue Johnston
Sometimes I think of you as super human, Nicci… so full of creative ideas and a bottomless heart to help others. I know that we all have ups in downs in life, but for me, I’m glad that you are human… although I still think you are a SUPER human!
Nicci Fletcher
Oh Sue your comment has made me smile. I think Andrew would say that I am MAD and wishes that my creative ideas would stop flowing. Fortunately (and that is NOT a typo!), fortunately I can’t find the “off switch” so the I’m going to need a little of that super human quality to help me through the coming months. Luckily I have people like you, Brandi Lytle, and Andrew to keep my feet on the ground when needed!