Lesson #1: It's all on me

So I've always found blogs to be a bit self-indulgent. Trust me, my life isn't interesting enough for the entire world to want to peek in.  But...

As I was thinking about my adult piano students, I realized how important daily learning is for adults as well as children. But we don't all have the time to learn another language, instrument, etc. However, I truly believe that if we open our eyes to life, we learn something new every day. One of my favorite lyrics in Strawberry Fields Forever: "Living is easy with your eyes closed - misunderstanding all you see."

So this is what I'm going to do - I'm going to open my eyes and understand what I see. Every day, I'm going to open my eyes and be conscious to what life is trying to teach me. Then I'm going to post it here. If other people read it, great. If they don't, that's fine too.  I'm going to try to make it general enough so that my readers can apply my lessons to their lives

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So here we go...


Lesson #1:  It's all on me

I have been thinking about this for a couple of weeks now. When we are around miserable people, we inevitably become miserable.

I work in a very dark building with no natural sunlight. The individual that I find myself working closest with is absolutely miserable with life. I have tried being overly cheery, quiet, crabby, you name it.  But nothing changes with him.  You can imagine how draining it is working without light surrounded by negativity all day while trying to change an "unchangeable" person.

It doesn't have to be this way. It's on me to make a change in or around me - whether that involves separating myself from that person or getting out of the situation that forces us together - it's on me. NOTHING will change unless I do.

I have been dealing with this for a year now. I am NOT proud to admit that I have embraced being a victim in this situation for a full year now. But not anymore...it's all on me.

Deirdre