Outlook is everything in life

Outlook is everything in life. It leaves us feeling joy or sadness. It fills us with possibility or leaves us feeling depleted. Outlook is that which determines whether we are full of hope or weighted down with despair.

Yesterday morning I was woken up at 3am which seems to be the bewitching hour in my home at the moment by my daughter’s talking Furby. As a word of advice, do not buy one of those things for your children because they are slightly demented and come on when least expected. But for some reason I was moved to believe it had woken me up for a reason so I got up to go to the bathroom trying to understand why I had been woken up at that hour.

I don’t like to turn the lights on in the bathroom when I wake up at that time because I like to remain in that special and peaceful place between sleep and awake so I can go back to sleep when I go back to bed. As I walked into the bathroom, I was surprised by the silence outside considering I had gone to bed with the wind rattling again, the rain pounding down and was fully expecting to hear much of the same. Instead I was greeted by the sound of silence and a beautiful and enticing light shining through my blinds. I opened the blinds to see where the light was coming from and was delighted by a sky full of twinkling stars and a crescent moon lying on its back illuminating the sky. Feeling me with such hope. Such delight. Such joy that I began to tingle from head to toe.

As I stood marveling at the sky, I realised I had turned the talking and demented Furby issue into a moment of reverence as I stood at the window absorbing the light of the moon and the stars. Feeling so blessed to have witnessed such a spectacular sky in the early morning hours of the beginning of a new day. Feeling so blessed to have taken the time to observe the awakening of a new day. Grateful for the light in the otherwise dark night.

And then I went back to bed falling into a deep sleep with a smile on my face. A smile filled with the light of the dark morning. Blessed by each star that had shone down on me. By the light of the moon. So grateful for witnessing nature at its very best. Shining bright like diamonds uncut and unchanged by man.

Reminding me that outlook is everything in life. It is what determines whether we will be filled with joy or left empty from sadness. It allows us to look at the Furby situation as a threat or as a gift – an opportunity to see the beautiful sky as I did when I was woken up. It fills us with possibility or leaves us feeling depleted because outlook determines who we are at any given moment.

And because I had that special moment yesterday morning, I took the blustery stormy weather last night and this morning in stride. Seeing just how quickly everything can change but as long as my outlook is good, I can go with the flow. Because outlook is everything in life.  Namaste.