Cold reminders of reality

We've all heard the phrase "you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone." I never really thought about it until this week. Sure I've had break ups where I was done and out, I've visited a place I've always wanted to see and missed it the second the plane took off homeward bound and the occasional friend who lives nearby and then moves away. But it wasn't until this week that I truly thought about what that means that I "don't appreciate what I have until it's gone."

For the past three days now I have planned to wake up early and hike. For it is when I hike that I truly feel disengaged with the craziness that is my life, a life filled with thousands of unanswered questions, doubt of my future and frustrations of the present. Yet, every time I wake up, I am quickly greeted with disappointment and cold reminders of reality.

Just yesterday, for example, I woke up at six in the morning ready to set out on an all day excursion only to find last minute that I was scheduled to be work in just a handful of hours. The best day all winter to go out. Same happened today as I woke to the 10 percent chance of snow, slated for the later hours of the day, that happened to come early for an unpleasant and unwelcome morning wake up. 0-3 sucks in life and even in baseball.

My point is that for the past four days I have been salivating over the fact that the weather called for mid 40s and sunshine, which is not normal for northeast Ohio, only to be disappointed. My other point is that Dick Goddard is past his prime and gets paid to lie...just retire man. I'm pretty sure the man is being kept alive and running on air by puppet strings and voice overs.

As I have been grateful for the weather and looking forward to the spring-like opportunity to hike in January and February I have come to realize I should not be bummed that I've been kept hiking for whatever reason, but should be thankful for the gift of the opportunity to even be considering such a delightful wintry getaway.

How many times doe we get upset or angry over something without even considering the fact that we should be grateful it's even an opportunity for us to be considering...unfortunately we don't always think this way. All I know is I am no longer bummed about my failed attempts to hike and looking forward to the next opportunity. For example tomorrow...because in life there is always tomorrow.

Until next time...