No different

While driving home from dropping the boys off at school this morning I had one of those "moments". As I sat at the stoplight waiting for the light to turn green, a school bus was driving by in the opposite direction. I watched as the bus passed and I noticed something. Every single one of the six or seven kids on the bus had a smile on their face. Not just a content look, but a huge, happy to be alive look on their face. This obviously wasn't a bus filled with hormonal teenagers being taken to high school. This bus was on the way to Glen Paul, the school for children with disabilities. Normally I don't take notice in something like this but today I did. Today I looked at that bus and realized that no matter how hard I think I have it or how annoyed I am at something in my life, I have it pretty good. Hell, I have it VERY good. Those kids weren't thinking about their problems, they were just happy to be going to school. All of the little things in my life that at the time feel huge are just a bump in my road. To some the bump in the road never goes away. It's something that they learn to deal with and accept. The moment I had today is something that I will remind myself of often.
Be yourself...always. Smile because you never know who is watching. And remember, somebody, somewhere is always going through the same thing as you are. It's up to you how you deal with it.
xoxo