Don't Worry, Be Happy

It took me a while to think about what to blog. I've felt kind of dry of material, if you will. Through looking at other blogs and talking to my husband, I finally figured it out. Hold on. We may be a while.

I had an appointment with the periodontist. Or whatever it is. Anyway, I have several thousand dollars worth of work that needs to be done to my teeth. Let me say now, Mom, I'm sorry. I know you paid a lot of money for my teeth. It is completely my fault for not doing the upkeep. And it's not like I didn't know what was happening. I was just too (insert adjective here) to do anything about it.

I need another root canal. Great (read shit!). I didn't love my first one enough to want another. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't fantastic and something I would choose to do on a day off. But wait there's more. He wants to pull my four front teeth on the bottom and put in a partial. I'm not forty yet. Not that it matters how old you are. Some people are just destined to lose teeth. I just haven't done anything about it.

And where is the money supposed to come from? I can't get the money tree to flower to save my life. Stupid Florida sugar sand. We can barely get tomatoes to grow. And if I could pull it from any orifice, I would be pulling every day. Sometimes twice a day. But I digress again. I told you to hold on.

How is that going to look until I get the partial? I shudder to think that I would have to wait an extended period of time with no front teeth. Granted bottom teeth, but still four of them. They said something about fittings, and temporary something, and I can't remember. If I don't have something that looks half way decent, I told hubby I wasn't leaving the house until I had teeth. No church, no co-op, no grocery store, no anything. He laughed and asked what he was supposed to tell people. I said I didn't care. He could tell them anything he wanted. He could tell them I had dental work done and I wasn't showing my face until it was right. I told him to ask them to pray for me. Which brings us to the second half of the blog.

I was reading a few blogs earlier and I came across one that was in Chinese, but it was translated in English. And in as small a nutshell I can get it in, here's what it said.

A blind boy was sitting on a street corner with a sign that read, "I'm blind. Please help". He had a hat open in front of him with a few coins inside. A man walks by and reads the sign. He drops coins in and and picks up the sign. He changes the sign, puts it back, and walks away. He comes by later and the hat is full.

The blind boy recognizes his footsteps and stops him. "What did you change my sign to?" he asked the man. "I changed it to tell the truth." It read "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs tell the truth. The boy's sign said simply that he could not see. The second sign made people realize they were happy they could see. Have no regrets in your past. Learn from it and improve your future. Live life to the fullest and love with no regrets. The most beautiful thing to see is a smile, specially if you are the reason for the smile.

Fine. I know that things are not always perfect. Life is what you make it a lot of times. You can choose to stay in a nasty funk and be unhappy. Or you can cowboy up and get on with your day. Our lives are not always easy. And good relationships take time to cultivate. And who has any of that now days? But in the grand scheme of things, couldn't things be different for all of us. Put your life in perspective and figure out what's important. And then cherish it with everything you have. Love it with no regrets. Hold it as long as you can.

We made it to the end. I know, I took the long way. But did you really expect a post of mine to be short? Or take one road? You know me better than that. But, right now, I'm going to go hold one of those things that I cherish, and I may not let go until morning, if then.