When you were young, you wanted to be grown up. Now that you are older, you wish to be young. What did being grown up mean to you back then? And what does being younger mean to you now?
 
We are talking of two sides of the street, and you would like both at the same time or at your choosing. Perhaps you would like to crisscross. Perhaps you want what you want when you want it.
 
There is a good side to everything, and so you might like to please yourself more, more often and for a longer spread. It has to be better to be easy to be pleased than to be easily displeased. Better to smile than to frown. Better to be simple than complex. Better to be straight as an arrow rather than every which way. Have the intent to be glad rather than glum.
 
This is such a little change in direction, and it will change your life. Your reception of your life will certainly change your life. One way or another, how accepting you are of your life or how you push your life away makes all the difference in the world.
 
The expression “your lot in life” tends to be dismal, as if you have no choice in how your life plays out, as though you have lost. You have choice. You have all the choice in the world. Even if you are imprisoned for life, you have choice. Even if you are sentenced to die, your life is not all about your outer circumstances. Your inner circumstances count more. The flag you wave is not your circumstances. The flag you wave is your choice.  
 
No longer are you to say: “I can’t help it.” From your angle of vision, you are the one who can help it. Inevitably, you are no longer what you used to be. Be what you want to be then. Be strong. Be uplifting. Yes, uplift yourself. Wait no longer. Spread your wings. Be your own bluebird of happiness.
 
We are not speaking of making the best of it. This idea starts you off on the wrong foot. This sounds like you are coming from a difficult situation. This is just what you don’t want to be thinking. This could make you feel worse, discouraged, defeated. Simply come from a higher angle, and the situation you are in will change. It may even do an about face.
 
This works both ways. It’s a fact that you don’t know what life is going to bring you. No one knows for a fact, yet you can set a good place at your table for your life regardless of any costume it may wear now. Life can look fierce. Life can wear a pretty face. You’ve been fooled by a pretty face before. And you’ve misinterpreted a fierce face as well. Didn’t someone write a song that says: “Life is what you make it.”
 
Someone is overjoyed at a great success, and then his upbeat life falls flat on its face. Someone can be sad at a change of events that turns out to be a boon.
 
You are the chief cook of your life. Have some good recipes that take you far. Why on Earth would you make a recipe you’re not going to like?
 
I do not tell you to be an automaton who grins and bears it no matter what comes. I tell you that you can bake a cake that falls, and yet you can reclaim the fallen cake, and make it into something delicious. Set the power of your intention. Believe in what you can incur, and then incur it. At the very least, lean toward it. Although you are unable to bring the dead back to life, you can bring yourself to life. Three cheers for life! Three cheers for you!