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So, today is 29th February. As it comes around only every 4 years, I guess it deserves special note. I've always wondered about those who are born on the 29th, how do they celebrate their birthday for each of the other 3 years between? If today is your day please comment and allow me to wish you a very Happy Birthday. Otherwise today does not offer more or less opportunities to enjoy ourselves than any other day. Except that is, if you are a woman who wishes to follow tradition and propose marriage to someone special. I'm still waiting.
But today IS rather special, if for no other reason than I realise I can make a lot of choices about what I do to make the most of it. Having no time to waste being occupied in activities that are anything less than enjoyable, I try to make the most of it. So, I have already done 90 minutes violin practice around dawn before my clients started arriving, I intend to make each session something to remember as I do the best work I can and enjoy the process from beginning to end. It is my intention to make each session a memorable one for each of my clients! I shall also take particular pleasure in enjoying my soup for lunch, and dinner later with my partner. One does not need to do extra-ordinary things to have a good time.
Yes, today is a very special day, but so was yesterday and so will be tomorrow. They all are, if I can have the presence of mind to enjoy every minute of them. This is entirely down to me, no one else. It's probably the same for all of us. It is entirely up to us, as to how we perceive life. If things are going well, then smile. If things are not going well, you may as well smile also as what's the point in making it worse? Make the best of a bad day! Yes, we can smile or not. I make my choice. I say to myself..... "Go ahead punk, Make my day!" And I will do so, as though my life depends on it. :-)