What You See Is What You Get
Charmaine said she writes the Daily Prism so she doesn’t rip off her clothes and run screaming down the street. I read it I don’t succumb to the occasional urge to poke out my eye with a stick. We need reminders of the good that is in our lives and the good that we are capable of, at least I do. The way I see the world shapes my life. I don’t know why that’s true. I do know that the good in our world becomes more evident to me when I look for it. When I don’t see the good in life it’s not because it’s M.I.A. or because my eye sight is suddenly worse. The good is always there because love is always there in one form or another. Love exists rather we see it or not. If I don’t see the good in a situation it’s often as not because my expectations have gotten in the way. You might know expectations as ‘shoulds’, what should happen, what she should say, what he shouldn’t say, what they should do. I started keeping a mental tally of the expectations I saw in my life recen