Wise Words

I have a dry-erase board in my office.  At the beginning of every week, I put up a quote and around December of 2008 I put up my new year's resolutions for 2009.  One of the resolutions that went up on my board last year was to become "cold and unfeeling."  The events in my life at the time were causing me great disappointment and heart ache and it felt as though closing my door and crying were normal occurrences.  So, I figured if I became "cold and unfeeling," I wouldn't be disappointed or hurt.  That new year's resolution was a joke because I am who I am and I'm sensitive by nature.  Cold and unfeeling just aren't things I could ever be.  Or, so I thought.

Here it is almost a year later and the events of this past year have made me less compassionate.  Or, at the very least, I have learned what is important and what is not.  There are things that, in the past, would upset me that today are just one of those things that mildly annoy me.  I'm not sure if I have truly become "cold and unfeeling" or if I've just matured or if I'm just too tired to care.  I have learned that there are things that are not worth getting angry over because there is nothing that I can do to change what happened. 

A few months ago, someone reminded me of the prayer that has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and almost every 12 step program: