At the end of the day I often stop to ask myself what or who has inspired me that day. \u00c2\u00a0I most often find myself attached to one or more experiences that touched me in some way during those 24 hours. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n There are those of my friends and family who – when asked what stood out that day – find little to be inspired about.\u00c2\u00a0 For them I am sad, because often they grab hold of daily events that drain the life out of them, make them yearn for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 the good ole days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or who revisit unresolved issues day after day with no resolution. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n We all know life events can take our pizzaz away quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, life is full of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the good, the bad and the ugly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Clint Eastwood would say in that good ole 1966 western named the same.\u00c2\u00a0 We process things in different ways and some of us have a hard time letting go of those things.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes we obsess about them or worry about what might happen so much that, at the end of the day, we are exhausted from it all. Some of us can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even eat or sleep because we worry about things so much.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I have friends – Chris and Barbara – that have been living at the hospital on and off for the last three months.\u00c2\u00a0 He is dying and she is determined she will be with him all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 We see how sick he is. We see how tired she is.\u00c2\u00a0 We hear how exhaustion is taking it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toll.\u00c2\u00a0 Their courage has been amazing to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n I have, through all that is going on with them, been inspired.\u00c2\u00a0 The other day she called and wanted me to help her find someone who could decorate his hospital room in his favorite things.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the help of friends she was able to quickly accomplish that.\u00c2\u00a0 I visited the other day and was awestruck at how the room spoke of him…large blown up pictures of him as a younger and more vibrant man with his favorite fishing equipment and pictures of the family members he loves and cherishes.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I was unexpectedly inspired yesterday evening by a young man, Leonard, who worked with me for over three hours to help fix a computer and I Phone issue.\u00c2\u00a0 He carefully and thoughtfully was able to work with me for that long because of his patience, and his passion for his work.\u00c2\u00a0 I had worked with a few others before who simply did not have the drive to problem solve that Leonard did.\u00c2\u00a0 It showed and I was VERY appreciative of that.\u00c2\u00a0 If all our young people had the drive Leonard does the world would be a better place.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you embrace life with the passion and drive of people like Leonard, Chris and Barbara.\u00c2\u00a0 If you do, you just might inspire others and maybe even be inspired by others, too.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the end of the day I often stop to ask myself what or who has inspired me that day. \u00c2\u00a0I most often find myself attached to one or more experiences that touched me in some way during those 24 hours. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illness","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-serving-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}