Same shit, same day, different outlook, different impact. 💩☀👓♥

Does this sound familiar?

You've got more to do, but dinner needs to get started, so you close your laptop and start trying to whip up something that's reasonably healthy, reasonably tasty, and not too much work - meanwhile, there's a rugrat 👶running underfoot and he wants to play and read and he's not really understanding why it's important to make food, all he really wants is to play 🪀🧸and then sometime soon he's going to get hungry 🤤 and then wonder why food isn't already there (or just start having meltdowns without realizing he's hungry)...

It's almost enough, day after day, to make me say - where are all the amazing moments in life? Is this what I signed up for?

That was me, recently.

Meanwhile, my wife takes my son out, and then I'm cleaning at home listening to a Brene Brown podcast with David Kessler, a grief specialist.

Well, he lost his son when his son was around 21 years old.

And he says, the worst pain is always your own.

And my heart is breaking for him. And my heart is breaking for me, were I to ever be in his shoes.

And then Brene says it's those normal moments that we miss most. The ones that we don't even realize are there until they're gone.

And then my wife and son come home, and he's still melting down.

And this time, it's amazing. To see him grow. To see him try to assert his own control on the world and start to make sense of it.

Same shit, same day, different outlook, different impact.

What a difference perspective makes.

So let me leave you with this - where are you taking your life for granted?

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