SCRABBLE: Make Getting Older Interesting
I feel very lucky. My life has been filled with interesting chapters. The only times that I remember being bored was when between ages 8 – 12, living at home, on the weekends or summer vacation from school, when there weren’t any family plans. I can still remember the echo of my voice asking my mother, “what is there to do?” I’d repeat the query again and again and again. After she ‘d become annoyed with me she’d utter, “Gai clop kop aff vandt.” (Go bang your head against the wall.)
Ha-Ha-Ha! Just what I wanted to hear.
Once I learned that I was responsible to create my own good times and my own happiness, life took on a whole new meaning.
It is a simple lesson and yet, it is not always an easy lesson. If you are like me and most all of the other humans on this planet, there have been times when you’ve lost site of this lesson. For me, it has always been during hard times: the loss of a loved one; a financial setback; not getting my way on something which I deemed important and feeling very, very, disappointed.
And you may know as I do that other people telling you or comforting you doesn’t cut it, no matter how sincere and well-meaning they may be.
All change comes from ourselves. When we mope and believe that there is nothing interesting left for us in this lifetime, we are right. ‘When you believe it, you see it.’
And when you believe that there is something more, even when you don’t know exactly what it is, it will show up in the ‘possibility window’ that you have cracked open.
As long as we’re here anyway, why not make an interesting time of it? My answer to interesting is SCRABBLE. What is yours?