Perspective .

Having a big tidy up today ( daughter still off school ) , I blipped this as I have just remembered how much I love it.
I got this as a present from a friend years ago. It's so simple yet striking . It's my common man's version of Rodin's " The Thinker "
I have has this on top of the TV for years and it was only when I moved it to my bedroom today that I saw it in a whole new light again.
It got me thinking about perspective on a bigger scale.
My situation is no different to this time a year ago, I am still in the same job - ok I love it-, the same house , I am still a bit neurotic ( my tidy up yielded no less than 8 self help books on my shelves ), I still spend too long on Facebook, I still get too grumpy with my kids , I still daydream that I will miraculously be given a book deal for my unfinished book, I still dream that one day I will win one of the races I enter, and in the words of Bridget Jones " I will always be just a little bit fat " (ok maybe that's my neurotic opinion ). BUT I am so much happier than last year. It's all to do with how we look at things. Life is good and actually I have the power to kick myself up the bum and change my under achieving side.
My " thinker " also got me thinking about the person that gave it to me, that's what I love about presents, the memories attached to them.
A memories and a thinking day.
When it's grey outside there's always hours of " footage " to watch in the memory bank.
Hope you have all had some brightness today.
Xx