#130 Hakuna Matata!

I thought alot about this challenge before deciding to take it on. 
I fretted over the blog part.... alot.  First I had to have a couple of friends help me set it up.  (Thanks Erica and Lynda for your help!)  Second I had to decide how I wanted to present my photos... I tend to be a private person so it has been difficult for me to open up.  Even without the blog part. I tend to be a little timid about showing people my photos.  It is a very private thing for me.  Maybe because I really do put alot of emotion into what I am photographing. 

So, I asked myself, Self I said... Why do you want to do this challenge anyway?  Well, I like taking photos, and I take alot of them so that wasn't really the reason.  I realized that I wanted  to do the challenge to see the world a little differently.   As I have said before: To try and see the wonderful little things about my everyday  life that maybe I am taking for granted.
  Years ago  while going through a real down time in my life, I made the decision to find one good thing about every day.  Not an easy task.  Sometimes my one good thing is that I made it through, and the day was finally over.  But, the more I tried this exercise the easier it became and so this philosophy is the same for the challenge.  

However, life is not always sweet and perfect in this positive thinking world of mine, and sometimes I fall into my old ways of focusing on the negative.  This has been the case recently.  I have been struggling with some personal issues,  Family illnesses, and some strained relationships. That along with the wear and tear that everyday life brings.  There have been some sleepless night and yes, some tears. 

Today I ran across an article that was in our March Monthly News at work.   It was a write up about our department and the project we did at Christmas time.  Really, you say?   You had to go back to last Chistmas.  Hey, Whatever it takes.
 Reading the article brought back some good memories, and reminded me that life isn't always as bleak as it appears.  So with that being said:


Hakuna Matata!