I have read in a number of Facebook posts the last couple of days that today starts a new book, a new story with 365 blank pages.

What we fill those pages with is up to us.  Do we make them good or bad?  Or will they be made good or bad?  Too many times it is said that we make our own stories and determine whether they are good or bad.  But we only have control over ourselves.  We don’t have control over the events of each day.

We don’t know who or what in our days is going to make them good or bad.  How do I know I’m going to see patients who are happy or who are miserable?  How do I know I’m not going to have patients who are going to make me leave late at the end of a day?

It’s not just US that makes our day what it is, it is the external stimuli.  For me it’s having to get out of bed sometimes and just not being ready to do that yet!

So we don’t always get to run our days or our own lives and we always have to figure out what to do next.  Often times we know what we want but we don’t know how to get there and we have to rely on someone else to get us there… like different jobs.

It’s easy to publish a book but then we have to rely on others to find it and then spread the word about it.

So it’s easy to say that we need to forgive and forget and set our differences aside, etc.  I have no issues with that.  I have forgiven and forgotten much in order to not carry that around with me.

I think that such a huge part of me now wants to chance to sit back and appreciate all of the world… what I have, what surrounds me, who surrounds me and I’m not getting that opportunity because I’m not doing what I love to do… but the jury is still out on exactly what it is I want to do all at the same time!

So here I am on that first fresh page and it’s been a good day!  It’s been enjoyable.  I will leave now to go to my aunt’s for a family dinner which I enjoy doing.  I got some work done on a blog post for the wellness studio and a couple of blog posts.

For this first day of a New Year, I’m not complaining!