July 29

Yesterday was my birthday.

Better Days

I heard a saying the other day that was something like, "Make today better than yesterday, for tomorrow will be better than today." Actually the words were far from that, but you get the picture. I'm actually somewhat impressed with myself for that "quote" I just wrote. I should write fortune cookies. If I wrote fortune cookies they would say something like, "you have just gotten food poisoning." (....IN BED!)


So I was wondering if that would actually work. If you actively attempted to make each day better than the next, would you see results? This concept seems like it only belongs on a fortune cookie and not in an incredibly intelligent blog like the one you find yourself reading today. But what if we attempted it on a smaller scale at first. Yesterday I fell asleep with my contacts on. Tonight I won't. Yesterday I experienced road rage. Today I won't. Yesterday I drank too many Mexican Martinis. Tonight I'll just drink wine.

Recently I found myself in a bout of depression for several months at least. One day I decided I was tired of being depressed and from that day forward I was going to push negative thoughts out of my head. As the good becomes overshadowed by the bad, we begin to forget everything wonderful in our lives. So I made active attempts to concentrate on the good in my life and ignore the bad. Well I'm happy to say that, for the most part, it worked! It was my first step towards feeling better. So now that I've worked on my world internally, I'm ready to overcome bad days externally. If yesterday I got soaked in the rain, today I won't leave my house without an umbrella. If yesterday I felt lonely, today I'll call an old friend. Eventually this could become a worldwide movement with everyone taking small steps and then big steps to creating better days. I can't wait until tomorrow!