A cuppa coffe and a “puppy” in my lap. That’s how I’m spending my early waking moments today. Big dog at my feet and kitties nearby. The house is quiet and warm yet it is now chilly outside. I believe we had a frost last night.
I just looked through the blogs to see what had been posted. Looked at my original posts about how I came to be here. You know, it’s still amazing to me! It seems when we are going through the “throws” of our life, those complicated moments when we are deciding where we’re gonna go next, what we’ll do in our life or with a particular situation, that we’ll never get to the other side of it. Somehow life in that moment is so complicated!
It seems though that the greater the challenges, the greater the opportunities we have to do amazing things. By amazing things I mean those things that we ourselves define as amazing. Not what another person or society may call amazing. The feats we think are impossible for ourselves to accomplish.
Remember when you were 5 years old and learning how to ride a bike? You perhaps thought it would never happen! What a daunting task riding a bike is to an average kid. My daughter went through that recently. As an adult I was able to say… “You can do it! One moment you will struggle and in the next moment magic happens and you are riding your bike!” And of course that’s exactly what happened. :)
This process happens over and over again with task after task. The mole hills of life look like mountains. And the mountains look like… Mt. Everest! Time and again I feel it’s all about pulling yourself up by your own “boot straps.” It’s also about hanging with people who BELIEVE! It’s about filling your “self” with inspiration and listening to those who have been there and say “YES! YOU CAN!”
Along the path there are many moments of frustration. Moments that you think you’re “done for” for sure!!!! Let me tell you; I’ve had many!! But honestly and truly, NO ONE counts how many time you fell over on your bike! NO ONE counts how badly you scraped your knees! ABSOLUTELY NO ONE! Why? Because we’ve all done it and we know its’ part of the process!!!
Now, look at chiropractic college. Does a student go through it with no bumps and bruises? Absolutely not! Do all of us that are here now and have been through it know this? YES! Absolutely! Yet we go on. Yet, we finish. Does it hurt? Sometimes, yes. But jeepers, that is life! Those bumps and bruises are part of our learning. Having raised two boys I remember how proud they were at times of their bumps and bruises in games of sport; soccer, basketball, lacrosse etc. They were badges of honor. LOL, well, I’m not sure I’m that hardy myself but it says something about the process.
Today I’m looking at November 2011. This November it will be 16 years since I first visited Sherman College campus and heard that fateful speech about chiropractic. All that I have been through and accomplished since that time is amazing to me. Simple milestones, perhaps, but to me amazing!
And I know now that if I surround myself with amazing people that believe as well; friends, family, “principled” chiropractors in the field, and continue to set my sights high, there will be more adventures to come! One day, one week, one year at a time…amazing happens!
