Beautiful

It was 8:30 Friday morning and I had driven about 50 minutes to get to my first appointment at the chiropractor. I was sitting in the pre-treatment waiting area with an electrode patch stuck to the skin on each shoulder. Electric current pulsed from a small box beside me through a couple of wires and flowed into my body, giving me a strange sensation. The point of the focused electric current was to get my neck muscles to relax before the chiropractic adjustment, but I wasn't sure if it was working or not. I was nervous for a few different reasons. For one thing, I'm still just a baby adult and still not entirely confident I make good decisions. I'm hoping it was a good idea to bring myself here. I'm also hoping the adjustment won't hurt and that I'm behaving myself appropriately.  So I'm sitting there between a couple other patients, trying to find a balance between relaxing and not slouching, and absently wondering what effect the electricity is ha...

It is weakness to complain about the things I can change. It is strength to be silent and wait. It is small to speak badly of others. It is big to cover their mistakes.

"And I will rise," Said my soul in a dream. I awoke to find the mem'ry was gone. But the swell of courage in my chest As I said those words, I still feel. And Daily, Through the undulations of life, I remember to forget. And time will tell the future As I rise.