You Are Your Reality

September 2, 2022

You are your reality, because you choose the reality you are to have. Your reality is not the World News. Your reality is how you react to the World News, or even if you choose to watch the World News at all. Stimulus from the outside world is bombarding you continually 24/7. When I was little. people got the news by listening to the radio, there were very few televisions back then, or by reading newspapers, or by watching newsreels before the features at the movie house downtown. The news was sometimes two days old before anyone even knew what had happened. Things have so exponentially speeded up in my lifetime that it makes my head spin. Now it seems like there are cameras right there where the action is before the dead body is even cold. From Baby Boomers to Leave It To Beaver, to the 1960’s, to computers and to clouds that don’t even live in the sky anymore. Wow, what a ride I have been on. Now I am 74 years old, and I do not even know most of the people in People Magazine. It is not because I live in the past, it is because everything is happening so fast, I can’t keep up with everything that is going on in the present. Of course, if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter…right? Ask somebody my age how many planets there are in our solar system. They will say nine. Ding dong we are wrong. There are only eight, because Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. It is now just a big rock floating around in space. Everything changes. Until we reach our final destination, we are on a continual journey. No rest for the weary. Just like you cannot hold sand in your hand for very long, it is also impossible to stop the hands of time from going around the face of a clock. Life happens. The better you are able to make sense of what is going on, the better your life will be. It is all up to you how you choose to interpret the moments of your life. Will your memories be happy ones, or the rehashing of old hurts over and over again. Get over it. The bad is never permanent, and the good lasts forever if you are focused on the miracles and the magic. Two different people who are both eyewitnesses to some event will each have totally different take on what had happened. It is up to the eyewitness to decide what he will see. People can choose to let bad memories fade into oblivion. There is no gain for your life to dwell on that which cannot be changed. Get over it. Start a new day with joy in your heart, and appreciation and gratitude on your lips. Look for the good and you will find it. Look for the bad, and you will find it. What is your pleasure? You decide how you are going to play your life out. You decide your reality. I have been sad, I have been angry, and I have been fearful. For a very long time now, I have chosen not to be those things, I have chosen to be happy. Now I am appreciative. Now I am grateful. Now I see God’s love everywhere I go. God has created it all, and all He knows is love. Wow. What miracles have you seen today. I have given myself one year to think of 1,000 things I am grateful for. I am two days into my second month, and I am already at number 155. How cool is that? I find so many regular things in my daily life that I have chosen to appreciate. I don’t take anything for granted. Everything is a gift. Start seeing the wonder of what is in your life. Make happy happen for you. Thank you for reading my blog. I am here to tell you old age is an incredible adventure. Everything now makes sense. It is amazing I can sleep at all… my cartoon eyes are always looking around. Wow. Have a most wonderful day. You are in charge of yourself, and if you have a wonderful day, or if you don’t, it is because you are your reality.

Granny-o