Change

For many people who know me, they know that one of my biggest problems is dealing with change. I don't like when things in my life change so dramatically that I am unsure of what I am doing. The past couple of weeks have been full of nothing but change. Not only did the semester end, but graduation occurred, and we also moved into a new apartment. I really struggled at first with finding ways to keep myself positive about the change. I started to realize that every time I had a negative thought, there was something positive that could have been said about the situation. During the school year, one of my biggest annoyances was that I felt as if I wasn't spending a lot of time with the kids that I work with. Now that I am not taking classes for a couple of months, I have time to spend with them. Rather than viewing the extra time as a negative, I can change the thoughts into something positive. I believe that we can choose to focus on the negatives, or we can choose to fight and look at the positives. I know that I have said this before, but I think that it is really important for us to remember that we can choose how we want to look at a situation. I am not recommending that we completely ignore the negatives and basically go into denial. I'm saying that rather than remaining stuck on the negatives, we can choose to dwell on the positives. Rather than allowing myself to get stuck, I can choose to remain positive.