Learn How to Dance in the Rain...

As I sit here, watching the rain fall outside my window, I can't help but appreciate how wondrous it is. It feels like the world around me is being cleaned, like all the dirt of the previous day is being washed away. Taking a deep breath, I inhale the sweet smell of rain, looking out at the renewed world. It seems that we spend so little time thinking about a renewed world, that it's something we take for granted. But then, isn't it something that happens every day, every time the sun peaks over the horizon one more time? It's not something we generally stop and think about, much less take the time to appreciate. Although each time the sun rises and a new day begins it may just seem like another occurrence, we should take a moment to look around and appreciate the magnitude of such an event. Not only have you awoken once again, gotten the chance to live another day, but you've also been given a fresh start. I'm not saying that the problems of one day disappear the next, but that it's a brand new day full of new possibilities. Just think of what you can do in the span of 24 hours. Lives have been saved, new beings brought into the world, people united, love found, all in less time. When you wake up tomorrow morning think of this, think of what you could do with the day, think of all the possibilities and promises the day holds. You never know what's coming your way. Perhaps you'll save a life, survive something that should have left you dead, appreciate something beautiful, help someone in need, find love, find new friends, there are so many promises that are held in a day. All you have to do is see and capture them, use them to make you a better person and the world a better place. Gandhi said it best, "Be the change you want to see in the world."  Don't take all these new possibilities for granted, or they may pass you by without you noticing them, without you ever knowing they even existed. Open your eyes to the world around you, see the beauty a new day holds, and remember that even if everything else in your life is going wrong, if your world is collapsing around you, you always have another day, another chance to make things right. Open your eyes to these possibilities, take in the world around you, and just maybe you'll see something you didn't the day before. Whoever said ignorance is bliss obviously never experienced anything but. Look at everything around you, look at a new day as you might look at the rain; as something cleansed, an old day gone a new one here. Open your eyes. The world is waiting.