your pet peeves will haunt you. as soon as you identify them, they will reverberate and come out of the woodwork. like pimples on prom night, you will notice nothing else. if you let your emotions get in the way and start allowing things to get under your skin the problems arise. something that was never there before will eat away at your happiness and attention and will fowl the air and your mood.

i try not to notice the bad, yet its always in the way. the day starts out with setbacks, things that have gone wrong. news pouring in from the world is never good and when the market goes up and the zeros and ones rise in my accounts i still find myself anticipating the fall. my mind races to the places i have yet to go to, the things i do not have and the names i do not want to be called. lost in a world of setbacks and failures i watch the tired faces of my elders and know the path that awaits me.

yet nothing is wrong. the good outweighs the bad and the luck and joy that i find day to day are real. blue skies are in the forecast and even the rain that will come is going to be warm. the spring air is warming the earth and flowers are coming to bloom, but they remember the frost that awaits if they come out too early or the sweltering sun that appears if they arrive to late. the fish swim in the middle of the pond, they hide from the darkness below that holds the predators and they stay away from the surface for the sky above is filled with the birds that want to eat them up.