Chalk it up to Experience

One of the best advice I had came from Dr Seuss...the man who wrote "Cat in the Hat"...
He said,
"Don't cry because it is over...Smile because it happened."

Of course, when for someone who has had something bad happened to them, this may sound like the worst possible saying.  At the point when we are hurting, or grieving or a loss, we deserve to cry to our heart's content...life owes us that...

But that is for that moment...to let our negative feelings out...so that they will all be released.
Then, we step back...and reflect.

Be grateful that we are alive...and by being alive, we move on
We pick up the broken pieces, and try to mend the wounds
We allow ourselves to heal.

It is not funny to suffer a fractured ankle.
I have not laughed at it yet, but at least I can smile....
I smile...thinking about how I wanted to curse and swear out aloud because of the pain.
I smile because I was fortunate to be rushed immediately to the hospital.
I smile because I had a bright pink cast
I smile because I am so clumsy with my crutches
I smile because...it happened...and made me a better person.

and I will try to find as many things as I can...to smile about.