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Good Days & Great Days
A short reflection on gratitude, perspective, and learning to recognize the difference between a good day and a great one.
There are 2 types of days in one's life good days and great days, every morning one wakes up is a good day. As I sit here this morning in Chicago overlooking the river walk sipping my premium coffee that I paid way too much for, it dawns on me that this is a great day. When I was a young man and we would be in church on a Sunday morning, and the old folks used to think god for waking up that morning they would always say it was a good day. It was very hard for a young man with no true life experience to understand why just waking up would make it a good day.
After 30+ years of living life it dawns on me, every morning you wake up is a good day. You make a personal choice to allow negativity into your day and make it a bad day. But if we really take time to reflect on our life that every day we wake up is a good day. Then maybe we should truly concentrate on enjoying the few great days that come into our life. Quiet mornings with the family, time at children's baseball games, days where your mind is clear and we truly realize we are blessed to be here with the people we truly love, and all the other truly great days we overlooked because we are always looking over our shoulder waiting to open the door to negativity. A point of thought.