This evening’s last-minute decision to meet friends for dinner, despite the light rain, was cool. I had an easy time getting across town and coming back, “Everything just flowing along with ease!”
I didn’t get wet. I didn’t have to even wait more than 15 seconds to cross the street, me having left at around 5:45 PM and having returned at around 7:44 PM.
It was only the BK Lounge we ate at Dutch style. But for me it was an excellent excuse to get out of my apartment for a while, breathe the air and be around people.
It’s interesting to note how the behavior of some changes when you change. Many others never will. But… For those who really want to be a part of your life, they at least attempt to meet you in the middle, “And that is all I’ve ever really ask for from anyone!”
I’m not interested in dealing with people who think that I need their protection or to be looked after in any other way simply because they can see, and I can’t. I’m not broken and don’t need to be fixed. Anyone who gets that is welcome to stick around. Those who only pretend to get that in an effort to forward their own agenda, those are the ones who are slowly being weeded out and are losing out. “I’m not a damaged commodity.”
There really is a light at the end of the tunnel. Some days it’s really hard to see. But when I remember to pull back a bit and run one or more of my newly acquired or newly modified tools for dealing with situations, even if things are still a bit to dark to let me see it, “I can at least still feel the light is there.”
Am I out of the woods with everything I’m dealing with right now? “No.” But I’m at least managing to navigate the forest without plowing into every tree, which is a far cry better than how things were for me this time last year. And… That’s what I call, “Progress!”