Life’s a trip. Whether it is good or bad, positive or negative, it’s all how you look at it.

“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.” ~ Annie Besant

At 1:30 this morning I set out on the splendid adventure of accompanying someone to the hospital ER in a major city. Now, one would think that since the waiting room had only one other person in it, that it would be a quick in-and-out. Well, not so.

While the x-ray was taken almost immediately, we were left in the lounge to wait for four hours before seeing any medical personnel. One might say that it was a gallant effort to sit up all night long, struggling to stay awake. As other patients collected in the lounge, most of them went to sleep in their chairs. At times, our faces (including my own) reflected what my friend called a “Bitter Betty.”

What we could not see from our side of the desk was the entrance that embraced multiple trauma victims, one ambulance after the other, all night (morning) long.

Almost five hours later, the nurse and the physician apologized for the long wait. The nurse commented that it was the worst shift she had worked in a very, very long time – multiple trauma victims. “The good news is they are all living.”

How about Appreciative Annie instead of Bitter Betty…

As we walked to our car five hours later, it was time to reflect on gratitude. Oh sure, we had now been up over 24 hours, and plans for the day were now totally swept away, BUT, we were both alive and well and walking out of the ER. Our thoughts went to those lying in the ICU beds behind us, struggling for their lives, suffering from the trauma.

Upon returning to the apartment and opening the morning emails, Abraham had this message waiting for us, “Every time you say, ‘I appreciate that. I really like that. I applaud that. I acknowledge the value in that.’ Every time you do that, you spend some of your Energy, and it is the spending of the Energy that creates a vacuum, so to speak, or an attraction, so to speak, that draws more and more and more and more.”

On this spring morning, we are grateful for many things: for hospitals for us to go to in the middle of the night, for competent medical personnel that literally save lives, for antibiotics and inhalers to help us survive, and for lungs to breathe, legs to walk, eyes to see, and hearts to be appreciative of all that comes our way on this adventure of life.

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