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Acceptance and Serenity

"Acceptance and Serenity" 



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The 30 Day Blogging Challenge prompt for January 9 is "Late actor Bob Denver (known for playing Gilligan on the tv show Gilligan's Island ), who would've celebrated his 82nd birthday today, once said "You know, I have no worst experiences." What do you think? When have you had to turn a potential "worst experience" into something positive?"

I would actually have to agree with him. I mean there are some experiences that can be bad and seem like they have ruined your whole day but Bob Denver is absolutely right. "I have no worst experiences."

It has taken every single experience I ever went through to make me into the person I am today. I like who I am today and many others like me as well. There is somebody very special who seems to think I do no wrong. I've told her my horns are what support my halo but she doesn't believe me. Actually I think she simply doesn't care. She accepts me and cares for me just the way I am. None of that would have been possible if even one little experience in my life had been altered. I truly believe that if we change so much as one little, insignificant experience in our lives it changes our whole time line and who we are. There is no real proof of that but it makes logical sense. For example say I could go back 30 years in time. Then I'd convince myself not to marry my first wife or for that matter neither wife. If that happened and I didn't marry them my life would be totally altered. I would not be the person I am today. I'd have no son or daughter. I wouldn't have at least twenty other children to whom I was a father figure. I may not have owned my own home. A lot of things would have changed.

I said in a blog yesterday that the experiences in my life appear to be wreckage left behind but they are actually precious treasures because they helped shape me into the person I am today. The deaths of my sister, my wife, my dad, and my mom were very hard on me. I cried for days after my wife passed and when my parents passed I cried a lot. However I determined that I was no longer going to mourn their deaths. I was going to celebrate their lives instead. Doing so may have offended a few people but I'll deal with death my way.

I've had other pretty negative experiences. I am a former first-responder. I was a paramedic. I have seen things that still give me nightmares, though they happened decades ago. I won't go into details here. However I know that even those very negative experiences helped shape me. They taught me the power of faith and acceptance. When I can face life on life's terms instead of trying to change it to suit me, I find a place in my mind that I like to call Serenity.

Of course I have one problem there. My mind went wandering one day and never did come back. I put out and amber alert and A. P. B. but it's been years so it's probably lost forever. If anybody sees it send it back will you?