A Toddler's Perspective

Its amazing what one can learn from a toddler.  This afternoon my two year old, Maggie, taught me about perspective. Perspective can make such a big difference in how we view our quality-of-life. We absolutely have the choice in the way in which we respond to the things that happen to us. We can't change them, but we can live and laugh through them

Today we experienced one of the first nice days in a long time.  The sun was shining, melting the mounds of snow that descended upon us just yesterday, and the temperature was about 50° warmer than it's been in a a while. 45° felt like 70! Taking advantage of the nice day, I walked over to pick up my daughter at day care, taking our dog, Meatloaf, along with.  For a 70 pound English Bulldog, he's a bit sheepish when it comes to water, and tippy toed his way through the many puddles in the sidewalk.  Little did he know what was in store for him.  On our walk home, a car drove through an enormous puddle on the side of the road, completely drenching Maggie, Meatloaf, and me. We all froze and gasped (or at least, Meatloaf would have gasped if he knew how).  As I was turning around to give the driver a dirty look, (how dare they!) I heard uncontrollable, hysterical laughter coming from Maggie. She thought getting soaking wet from this car was the funniest thing in the world!  What a lesson. The moment I heard that laughter I softened and started laughing myself. After all, its funny. Yes, the water was probably filthy but we would survive. Instead of stewing over the incident, I'm smiling about it.  And why not?  Its almost a certainty that person didn't do it on purpose, and there's a good chance they didn't even know it happened.  And that doesn't really even matter anyway.  It happened.  We can either choose anger, or laughter.  I choose laughter. 

~Namaste