This month's book group book started so promisingly, I enjoyed the metaphors of the guy getting new glasses and suddenly the river becomes a textured flowing river not just a flat brown surface. This man had impulsively left his old job, city, life - all that he had done for years - and was trying to find out more about another person and was really feeling things as if for the first time.
The book is too intellectual for my liking and I'm struggling with it and wondering if it's worth the effort of carrying on. Should I just stop now and go back to the joy of my Dragon series?
But then I come across quotes like this and it encourages me to keep on:
"life is not what we live, it's what we imagine we are living"
I think this is true - it is how we perceive what happens to us that matters, not what actually occurs. I could have a similar experience to someone else and we both could react very differently to it.
Yesterday had lots of good things in it and I was feeling pleased with how I was imagining my life. There were times I could have given a piece of my mind and instead I gave a piece of my heart. But by evening I got overwhelmed by the crappy things coming in. Yes we have the power to reconfigure how we see our situations, but that's not always easy! I shall try and be especially kind to myself today whilst I'm feeling vulnerable. And
I'll carry on with the book for now - I'm one for trying to see the best in everything, and nothing turns out to be a waste of time unless we choose to see it that way.
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