Today I am finding it difficult to find joy. Iowa has welcomed me back with a -15 degree windchill and blowing snow, classes starting again, trying to buy books, paying away my life in tuition, homework, commons food (no more home cooked meals), cold showers, and missing home. However in going with the theme of joy, I have chosen to look at the bright side of things today. When I change my attitude I will notice the glittering snow all around as I walk through the cold to class, eating meals and laughing with friends I haven't seen in a month, orgainizing books, notebooks, and sharpening new pencils, cable tv so I can watch Gilmore Girls again, walking back from class with the company of a great friend, and drinking a warm cappucino when I return to the haven of my warm room after being out in the cold. Even when I think there is no joy in my day, when I take time to look at the positives in my life I realize that I don't have it as bad as I always think.
Trying hard to look for joy in the mess of life,
Aubrey
some days are just like that... i always say i just feel like i'm in a funk and i can't pull myself out of it. it is good to refocus how we look at things, to see the silver lining and to keep trudging on... but it is ok to struggle sometimes too, don't feel you need to apologize for feeling a little blue... there is always joy if we look hard enough but every now and then it's ok to bury ourselves under the covers and say we are never coming out (lol) LOVE YOU... counting down the days till you are home again!!!
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