Blog 539 – 02.08.2017

Putting The Best Spin On Things

I just finished watching The Trouble With The Curve starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, and Justin Timberlake. I have watched it at least five times, the first time when it came out on the big screen, and I see more in it every time. That is the way with a good book, play, or movie, it gets better with each additional viewing. Life, my friends is like that, if we learn to put the proper spin on things.

I love baseball and it’s many analogies on life. The title of the movie, The Trouble With The Curve, is so appropriate to the trouble most of us find in life. Life throws us a curve and we are not expecting it and it throws us off our game. And all too often we act like it is game over all because of one bad pitch. I have mentioned often about all of the encouragement that I get from Louise Hay’s You Can Do It Daily Calendar. Today’s is no exception. It reads, “It is now safe for me to release all of my childhood traumas and move into love.” Wow, what a gift Louise Hay has of putting so much meaning into so few words. I admire writers like her and my friend Mike Dooley, who with his Notes From The Universe can provide such insights in so few words.

I, on the other hand, am a much wordier guy and take my time wandering around the scenery before hopefully coming to the point. But as I aspire like many writers to write that great American novel someday it is all practice for me. On my way I do hope to encourage my friends with a few choice words and to help by sharing what I have picked up along the way.

I have seen so many quit on life or get stuck reliving a seemingly endless loop of pain, misery, and hopelessness. I have seen people mourn the loss of a loved one to the exclusion of having a life of their own, that brings no honor to the loved and lost. I have seen people blame their present difficulties on something someone said or did so many years ago that nobody but them even remembers it happened at all. And yes I have myself been guilty of doing those same things to myself and worse. We are all of us training to hit the curve and to put the best spin on things.

Everything that comes to us is a gift. It is up to us to make the most of it. We have only two viable choices other than getting stuck or giving up that is. Those two choices are:

To Win Some

or

To Learn Some

Whichever you pick I hope you win and learn to put the very best spin on things.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White