Complaint Free??!!

Today is the first day of spring? I place a question mark at the end of that line for the simple reason that I don’t believe it! On my walk to work this morning I fell on my tush, not once, but twice. The snow was falling and leaving a shiny, light dusting atop the ice that had formed through the night, the night that hailed the spring at 1:48 a.m.. SPRING, my tush!

I am in the midst of reading one of the books available here at P’lovers entitled `A Complaint Free World‘ and the premise of the book is that we tend, as a society to complain too much, so let’s put a halt to the negativity. While reading I began to pay close attention to my own habit of complaining and was pleasantly surprised to realize that I truly am an optimist with a sunny outlook on life, I am not a complainer.

Following along the directions in the book I placed an elastic band on my wrist and every time a complaint passed my lips I switched the elastic to my other wrist. The elastic did not see too much movement…

Until SPRING, I am now viewing myself in a different light, I am a complainer, about the weather. I am tired of snow, scarves, boots, turtlenecks and falling on the ice. So, I have packed away the boots and the turtlenecks, I have put away the snow shovel, I have traded in my boots for yellow sneakers; but I am keeping the elastic on my wrist.

-Jude