Danger and Opportunity: Open to Interpretation

We have two choices in the way we evaluate life-altering change.  You know the old adage about the Chinese symbol for crisis implying both danger and opportunity.  I know, I know, it's pretty well-worn.  But it has worn well because it's true.

When in crisis, it's easy to identify the threat and slip into the all too familiar feelings that accompany it: anxiety, sadness and, ultimately, depression. It's more difficult to identify an opportunity, but the rewards of leaning that direction are sweeter, including an almost electric-charged feeling of challenge, hope and the resulting self-confidence from having met the enemy and having refused to back down.  Would you be willing to learn how to override the tendency to go straight into defense mode if you could?  It bears thinking about.

More on the topic of danger and opportunity later (yes, that's a threat!).  

This is a busy week for us with a clinic appointment (always a half-day adventure), the opthalmologist and then off to get new glasses.  Roger is having day surgery on Thursday for that enlarged lymph node.  You'd think we wouldn't have anything to do but sit around and wait to get well, but healing is not a passive process and we are actively involved every single day.  It's always something.

Stay tuned.