Now, because I don't want to bore you with my lessons learned, I'm going to try my darnedest to keep this simple. The absolute, number one thing I learned this year...... Drum roll...................(the dots are the drum beats) *crash* I learned to be positive!!! Super deep, surprise ending, right? Okay, all joking aside, but honestly, at the end of this year, which had some crazy, unexpected plot twists, I can say coming out that looking at things positively really and truly does make all the difference. Just for an example, I'm going to take you back in time a little, this actually happened not in the year 2013, but a few years ago, when I cleaned toilets for a living. I was a morning janitor for all the Shakespeare buildings at suu, they have a big Shakespeare festival there every year in case you didn't know, it's really famous, a lot of old people go to see plays there, yada yada, anywho, being a janitor is DEFINITELY not the most glamorous dream job in the world, and we had to be at work at 6 am everyday. Anyone who knows me knows i am in no way, shape or form a morning person. Actually I'm barely an anytime person, but for sure not morning. And we were cleaning some pretty gross stuff on many occasions. Opening the bathroom doors every day was like opening a really stinky Pandora's box. It was just bad news bears all the way. But these last couple months I realized that I only have good memories of that job. Even the horrible stuff we had to do has turned into great fireside stories I can tell when I'm running out of other great fireside stories to tell. A couple great things I remember. First, we used these really cool backpack vacuums. We had a few names for them, the one I remember most is back vacs. And we used to joke that they were our ghostbusters guns and we would constantly tell each other "whatever you do, don't cross the streams!!" Or another great thing I remember, the whole cleaning crew had to polish the brass stair rails every day, and that was tedious work. But the whole time we did, we were playing Would You Rather. We had many a philosophical debate over whether we would would rather have forever wolf-man hairy arms that we couldn't shave, or a thick unibrow, also unshaveable.
Moral of the story. You actually CAN put a positive spin on almost anything. And another part of that is just being grateful. If you spend your time thinking about all the things you're stressed about, all the things you need to fix, all the things you're bad at, guarantees you'll be down in the dumps. I've seen the dumps, they aren't pretty. BUT!!!! If you look for even the slightest second at what you have to be grateful for, something will immediately come to mind, I promise. And if it doesn't, well, that's not my area of expertise, sorry. Who am I kidding, I don't really have areas of expertise:) so happy new year, everyone. Go out and live, really live. And put that positive twist on everything you possibly can, and dont give up! Learning this has made me feel good, much like the time I successfully harmonized with the Dollar Loan Center jingle on the radio.
Just one of the great discoveries of 2013.
Love, Savannah, sometimes known as Savvy, Sandbag, Sissy, Sav a nuh, lil Savvy....