Perspectives

Sometimes life is all about putting things into perspective. I've just had another tack thrown under my tire of life, a disappointment to see how someone in my life has handled some gossip about me. My response has been to cut ties becuse this is the year of no BS for me and I won't put up with negative people bringing my life down.

However, as I was wallowing  over the weekend (and I was eating pizza so I knew I was wallowing) in the disappointment that this had brought me I got to work this morning and found out that someone I knew from the Ports had passed on.

When I started at POAL he was such a support to me, helping me with setting up things when I had no idea what I was doing, and later on being a wonderful person who I could chat to.

Because of things that happened before I left and while I was away I lost touch , and didn't know about his illness. That makes me sad, but I think of everything that he has done, the people who mourn his loss and all the lives he touched and I think, I am blessed to have known such a person.

So while there are people who will try and bring you down, there are always people who try to raise you up, to help you, to want to make you be a nicer, better person.

And I am so grateful that I have these types of people in my life. So putting things into perspective for me today is the fact that I am actually blessed with many positive people in my life and I don't need to wallow or give the negative people anymore space to rent in my head.