When You're Down

Sometimes I need to remind myself about perspective. I've always found it very difficult to assess things when looking towards myself. Call it an inward astigmatism - I look at myself and I can't seem to focus.

My mirrors need to come with the warning that "objects in mirror are better than they appear".

I had two points that I wanted to cover today, things I wanted to come back to whenever I'm feeling the blues.

1) You are very lucky and very loved.

2) You must be doing something right to be that lucky and to be that loved.

Because it's true. When I think about how hard it is to gain someone's love and trust, and the kind of providence needed for it to happen... Well, let's just say that these are not events of pure chance and happy coincidence. There's something about you and there's something about me that made it happen. And if we could make a friendship, a relationship, a conversation so inviting that I'd always overstay my welcome... There must be something about me that makes you feel the same.

Maybe it's that "something" that is hard for me to quantify. I can effortlessly tell you why I love you, to the nth degree. I can sing your praises without sheet music; hell, I wrote the songs.

But maybe that's okay. Maybe it's okay, as long as I can recognize the deliberateness of our interaction and the tenderness of it all. These are the moments of my life as they happen, and things will never be the same. Maybe I don't want them to be.

Let's wait and see.