About a month before my sister and I went to Europe five years ago, X texted me to tell me that he'd gotten engage. The man who left because he was just too independent to be married, was getting married. That knowledge weighed heavy on me in the time leading up to this vacation we'd been planning for months. It was the trip of a lifetime - London, Paris, Florence, Venice, and Rome - so many places that I'd dreamed of seeing. But my thoughts were going to X and the hurt is engagement had stirred up in me.
On my second full day in London, my sister and I were walking across a bridge to ride the London Eye and I paused for a moment and thought to myself, "I am in London!" I looked in another direction and say this.
I decided to shake off the rejection and hurt and embrace this wonderful chance to see all of the sites I could and to make this trip everything I dreamed it would be.
It was in that simple action of pausing and looking at the positive in the situation instead of the negative that I changed my attitude to one of dwelling in the past to looking ahead to the wonderful things ahead of me.
Since that day, I've tried doing this quickly, before I let too much time pass. I pause, reset my brain to positive not negative, and go on with enjoying my life.
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