I Still Believe

This post is a P.S. to yesterday's post "The Ghosts of Chrismas Past and Christmas Present."

Last night as I was feeling better for having visited the Ghosts, Past and Present, I was still thinking about the more processing and contemplation that I find myself going through more often now a days.

I came up with this sound bite regarding Past, Present, and Future:

The reality is that for me, at 75 years of age, there is more PAST to process then there is FUTURE to look forward to. 

The FUTURE to which we look forward becomes more uncertain and more frightening than previous FUTURES of the PAST!

And the PRESENT with the isolation, fear, suffering, poverty, illness, deaths, and losses from COVID-19 and the STATE OF THE UNION, with its divisions, hatred, lying, cheating, racism, etc. is not the most pleasant place to be right now.

So perhaps GRATITUDE for the good we do have, for our ability to be RESILIENT, for FAMILY and FRIENDS and LOVE and CARING and KINDNESS, for not so much LAMENTING the bad things but CELEBRATING the good, not wondering why things are as they are but rather working on how we think about those things is the ANSWER? 

In other words: GRATITUDE, RESILIENCE, FAMILY, FRIENDS, LOVE, CARING, KINDNESS TOWARDS OTHERS AND CELEBRATING THE GOOD IS THE ANSWER.