This is a segue from yesterday’s topic about changing ourselves. Sometimes the people we love might choose to stay stuck. We might be changing, growing, improving ourselves — while they prefer to live in self-pity and misery.
My friend Ramon says that as we get older, we have two choices: either we get better or we get bitter.
Some people prefer to live in the darkness. There are those who complain, moan, whine and kvetch, which is a combination of all three! I have decided to make the most of my journey through life. It ends in death, that much is certain, but at least for the time I walk this planet I want to make the most of it.
I can find something to feel grateful for, no matter how seemingly insignificant, to help me have a good day. The smell of freshly-cut grass, sunlight through the trees…even if it’s
just one thing!
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About dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award, a novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins), a memoir, The Mom Who Took of on her Motorcycle, and The Loving Yourself Book for Women: A Practical Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Heal Your Inner Child, and Celebrate the Woman You Are, an Amazon top-seller in several categories, and The Loving Yourself Workbook for Girls.
She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review and is currently a reporter for The Times of Israel.
Diana and her husband have six children and an unofficially-adopted daughter from Ethiopia. They live in a small village on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.
DIANA BLETTER 
Thanks for stepping forward with this blog!
It’s so true.