Demons

We all have our own personal demons that we struggle with.  Maybe it's depression, alcoholism, or unemployment.  Maybe it's a lost love, low self-worth, or poor self-image.  Maybe it's worry about a family member, terminal illness, or a chronic ache of some kind.  We all struggle with something, with some source of negativity in our lives.  It is how we react to it, how we deal with those demons that matters.  We can allow it to take over our lives and totally consume us, or we can learn to be positive and find the good out of any situation.  We can wallow in despair, or we can rise above.  We can focus on the love in our lives, rather than on negative feelings.  Who loves you?  Your family, your friends, your coworkers, your classmates, your neighbors, your spiritual community members.  We can focus on the ways in which we are blessed.  What are the good things that happened to you today, this week, this month, this year?  What are you looking forward to in the coming days, weeks, months, years?  What are your goals?  How can you make those goals come to fruition?

Everyone has bad days, or a day in which everything that can go wrong seems to go wrong.  But those days end, Mondays eventually become Tuesdays, and tomorrow is as full of possibility and light "as moonlight in a martini" (to quote Moonstruck, my go-to flick when I'm feeling blue).  So chin up--everything is temporary!