It's Been a Long Time

Well, it hasn't been quite a year, but almost.  Some things have gone OK and some have not.
 
I am still here, so that's something.  Mostly I have been over at the Antique Radio Forums http://antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php   helping people fix radios online.  Yes, that's a bit of a challenge when you can't see the radio (sometimes they post pictures), and you are working with someone who may have never repaired a radio in their life.

Lately I have been thinking about something and I may have finally been able to put it into words.  It is the following, "I have the power to change how I react to things."  Probably doesn't seem all that profound does it?  Well maybe it's not.

What I am getting at is that I don't have to let people get to me, make me angry, make me depressed, make me frustrated, or whatever.  It is me that does those things to me in reaction to what other people are doing.  If someone does something irritating, I really don't have to let it "drive me up a wall."  It's my choice.  I have the power.

The world may be going to hell in  a hand basket, but I don't have to wreck my whole life over it.  I have the power to choose what I do about it.

In the mean time I am looking forward to retiring someday.  Right now it looks like about four years away.  But things change and you never know what tomorrow may bring.  In the mean time, I'm going to choose to have a good day.