accentuating the positive again

I had a bad day yesterday.  it made me think of ALL the bad things in my life.  And all that happened is that I cried a lot and felt miserable. I drank wine, ate chocolate and croissants and shopping. But I still felt miserable.

I read a post today by Lizzie about her brother in law (you can read the post here) who is from the Middle East. He had never been to London before and was thrilled.  He and his colleagues were SO excited about the prospect of democracy in Egypt.  And their praise for the UK.  He loved the 'system' and how everyone knew how to join in to it.  Not something any of us would come up with really I am sure.  But how much we take for granted.  We live in a country where by enlarge people are law abiding, where we have a democracy, where we have systems that generally work.  Where we can walk safely in the streets.  Where women can work for a living and have rights.  Where there is little threat of bombs or shelling or violence.  We have healthcare and education.  We have traffic that stops at the lights.  These are all things that we just do not even take any notice of most of the time.  Or if we do, we criticise that it is all not working better.  We don't stop to think on how marvellous it is that it is working at all. 

And so I am hauling my sorry arse back into the land of thinking of the positive things in my life, and how lucky I am to live in the UK.  How lucky I am to be healthy. How lucky I am to have a healthy child.  There is much to be grateful for in this life of mine.  And I need to start appreciating what I have and stop having a big old pity party for the things I don't.

I am getting more and more excited by the Handmade Weddings idea.  Its probably being done.... but hey.  I can still think about it. And to be honest there is little I enjoy more than ideas!  Especially good ones.