The other day I was in a store and received a large discount and said to the sales person that today must be my lucky day. I went into another store right after and was picked to receive a gift certificate. So now I really thought this is a lot of luck coming my way!   As I was driving from place to place my smile became bigger and I felt so happy not with just the discounts but that all seemed so good. I kept that feeling the rest of the day and everything seemed to go my way.     Now I can definitely tell you keep the positive attitude because it creates a force field around you filled with an unmistakable energy.     “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

I was speaking to someone today who felt another person was narcissistic. She said he had no idea he had a problem so therefore most people do not like him. I said most people do not see their flaws. This made me think about my self and the people around me and how we handle our flaws …..or even if we have flaws to begin with….. So let’s see, do I have flaws???? Could be …could be …..Ok probably…alright already YES! SO what is the thought with this post??? We need to always grow and bend with the wind. We need to be strong in our will but sometimes being strong means to be strong enough to realize we need to change.     To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill    

  Words……   I was thinking the other day about words and how we misuse them. We do not always realize what we are saying and how it is perceived. But when we do this it can change the meaning of what we are saying. I had someone say he was extremely worried about someone. He told them this and they felt bad that he had to “worry “over her so she called him to let him know she was alright. He did not answer her call for two days. I guess he was not worried after all. I have another person who would always say she was nervous when the word should have been apprehensive.   What brings this to even more light is the “texting” ……this can be even more confusing because you do not hear the inflection of the voice and do not know what their intention might be in what they are writing.       People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. John C. Maxwell

Now I have already talked about alternate realities. This time  I am wondering does your reality influence my reality?????   I recently had someone talk to me about their memory of a situation in which we both were involved. He had his memory and I had mine….both were totally different!!!! So then I sat back and started to re think and wonder if my memory was distorted? Could it be?? Did I change the way I saw the situation???  So this has made me wonder is life a perception??? Even Albert Einstein said we perceive the life we see It may not be a reality in what we think we see……So I guess the conclusion is we will see what we want to see or just maybe we will see only what our minds can handle .     Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a “foregone conclusion.” Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. DIANE F. HALPERN, Thought and Knowledge