Stay Positive

Change, this is a thing that some people love and are willing to try and make happen themselves, while others dread change and hope that their life stays exactly the same. Those are the people I like to call cowards. Others, like myself, are stuck somewhere there in the middle.

Most people get seem to get caught up in a daily routine, and if one thing gets altered from their daily routine the person gets totally thrown off. And this is what seems to me to be a big reason for people having “bad” days. I believe that days like that should not be considered “bad,” but instead they should be labeled “different.” The only days that need to be labeled bad are tragic ones, like a relative dying or someone close being injured.

Part of life is learning how to adapt to change, but sometimes our lives can seem to be going amazingly well at a certain point, and a person might want it to stay the same. But even though everything is so good, there is only one place to go when you are at the top and that is down. This is why people that have less, seem to be happier to me because they only have one place to go, and that is up.

The people that take on change like my dog eats his treats, which he just goes straight after them with nothing holding him back, those are the people that I believe live life to the fullest. When something good happens I your life, you want to keep it that way right? But, what if an even better opportunity presents Itself to you, but you are too scared that that change will mess up the vibe you got going. That is when a person can mess up, in my opinion, you should take that opportunity. Even though the first little bit will be tough because you have to adjust, it will turn out better in the end, as long as you stay positive.

That leads me to my personal example, in my situation; I didn’t have a choice in what happened. My knee was messed up and there was only one way to fix it. Surgery, and six months of rehab. So I could have either sat around and cried like a baby and not done anything to get better, or I could work my butt off and come back to play baseball better than I ever have before. I took the latter route.

I changed my attitude, and started to work hard, lifting weights, running, going to physical therapy and pretty much anything else you can think of, and now look; I recovered from a terrible injury and my whole body, not just my leg, is stronger than before. Balls I hit that one hopped the fence last year are going over this year. And now I am right up there in the tops for the state with many different statistics.

Moral of the story…move on from the past, embrace, and create your own future.