It's My Choice

  Have you ever sat back and pondered what is and what should be?  Not that I have all of these deep thoughts that could ever bring world peace or a solution to looming problems but I do ponder things.  Years ago, Pop told me that if I thought long and hard enough about an idea, I may just come up with an understanding deeper than what I originally had.  Made sense back then some fifty odd years ago and still holds true today.  Most folks just don't think long enough to find a solution to anything anymore.

  If you look into a mirror you see what is.  There is no denying that fact. And while most of us may like or dislike what we see in that image, it does not give insight on what could be.  The possibilities are there.  The reflection we see is not the same as the reflections we can think.  The image in the mirror can be modified to cover surface blemishes but if we do not reflect long and hard we, ourselves, cannot be changed.  It takes deep reflection into our minds to figure out how to improve our lot in life.  Ha!  I told you that I pondered!

  All of this pondering on reflections actually had nothing to do with anything yet had a lot to do with everything.  Early this morning, the dreary skies gave me just enough light to catch a reflection on the calm waters.  A branch had somehow become lodged in the edge of the marsh and cast such a beautiful image on the water below that it started the mind reeling.  There was no improving the picture in my mind.  I can find beauty in the oddest of things simply because, a long time ago, I discovered that I am far happier looking for beauty instead of seeing ugliness.  Some claim that I turn a blind-eye to what is happening in the world but I beg to differ.  I merely see things in a different light.  I could go around seeing ugliness which would fill me with anger, disgust and pain or I could seek beauty and fill my spirit with happiness, hope and peace.  I choose the latter.