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Show i Thursday, February 14, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 15 Been There, done that: Is this the right place? Liz Elder Sometimes, when things change in my life, I get that creepy, everything-out-of-whack feeling. It can be a huge something, like losing a loved one; or a small one, like being at a party where you don't know anyone. It can be a move to another state or the aftermath of having an operatioa I just wake up sometimes and realize that I'm not sure where I am. How do you differentiate the ordinary everyday am-I-doing-the-righHthhig feeling from the boy-I-surfrshouldnt-havelone-that feeling? I think it's the glimmers." The you-sure-shouldn't-have-done-that feeling is accompanied ac-companied by a whole set of things that go wrong. Nothing Noth-ing works out. I'm a big believer be-liever in things working out; not necessarily in the suddenly sud-denly youinake4ots)f-mon-ey way, but when you're on target, you keep getting little hints, glimmers I call them, fhat you're where you're sup posed to be. You find parking places when you really need them, the car you didn't see doesn't hit you. People call you when you really need them There are little signs all around you saying, "Aha! This is unfamiliar, unfa-miliar, but you're going to be okay." That's the I'm-being-tested theory of being in the right place, but having things out of whack. For this theory, if you're not where you're supposed to be, things just go from bad to worse and therefs never any upside. No little sparks of hope, no little glimmers of light. If your whole life realty stinks every day, relentlessly, ' and nothing good ever happens hap-pens to you, ever, you're in the wrong place doing the wrong thing and you need to do something about it. This has happened to me a couple of times. Once, I needed to go ahead and have another baby even though I had such a horrible time having hav-ing the last one that after six weeks, it took me a half hour to walk to the corner and get the mail The other time was when I was doing too many things to "save the world and too few thjngs to mind my own business. It was so simple, but it did take me awhile to figur.jt out. Then,' a little attitude ejection, and! boom! The world opened up for me againf ' v-;v , Sometimes yjbu need to. tough it out am sometimes 1 you need to change; the way : to tell is the gBmners of hope. . . ' Now, you canraake an ar- gument that thai are really no right or wrong places, just , good or bad attitudes aboiC ; where you are;. In' my heart I'm singing "Chin up, chin ; up. You'll be on the right side looking at the bright side. Up with your chinny chin chin," along with Charlotte in her web as she prepares to die. Lots of seemingly good decisions de-cisions do not bring unrelenting unrelent-ing joy. Let's talk to a mom at home all day with a three-year three-year old or someone taking J..,,., I i J"-" "V t Hmmmm -- - : 11 T ! 1 jb?: : I awMMwy- an '-"-'-7 , " I - " I 1 -" - " ' t V ' , A, -I :" Mapleton Elementary School congratulates their Sensational Citizens for the week. These students were recognized by their teachers and classmates for doing great work at the school. They have been working especially hard on their Jazz Reading Minutes, Science Fair Projects and other school assignments. Keep up the good work students and thank you for continually striving to give your personal best! Your efforts are appreciated! Pictured, from left to right row one are: Zach Roylance, Kaitlyn Ward, Payton Giles, Ethan Spilker and Shantel Titcomb. Row 2: Melanie Gutke, Nicole James, Leslie Griffin, Abigail Tanner and Cassadie Jeffers. Row 3: Etnme Gunther, Andrew Holce, Hanna Campbell, Austin Edwards and Josh Crocket. Row 4 standing: Yuliana Lopez, Kade Poulsen, Hunter Cooper, Chloe Harlan, Brandi Gessel, Daniel Johnson and Cristian Solorzano. ' A care of an ailing spouse. Let's talk to a grandma babysitting even though she has arthritis. arthri-tis. Boy, that's a seemingly good decision that can seem endless. But hard is different differ-ent than being in the wrong place. Challenges bring satisfaction sat-isfaction and a sense of achievement. Sometimes you just know you're in the right place even though you just can't catch your breath. You can just feel it inside. But, if you're in the wrong place, you have to change, and making a change can be tricky. You don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. You know, when you're in the shower and yourre trying to get just that right temperature and you have to keep moving the little dial thing back and forth, getting burned, freezing, until you're just happy front and back? That's frequently how making changes are. You usually have to take baby steps. Good changes are usually positive changes. They're "I wi"insteadof "I wont." Good changes are often painful and require you to get hold of yourself, exercise some self-controL self-controL They can be as simple as starting to walk around the block once a day or as hard as conf ession. You might have to change friends and go through the agony of making new ones. v But it's a process. Most of us only come to changes in increments. Mercifully. Although Al-though some people can give things up cold turkey just because be-cause they said they would, most of us go through the long dark night of figuring things out little by little. By trial and error. And it's not al-ways al-ways that fun. 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