On Being Brave

You can do it! This weekend I am daring to create my own website and post my first blog entry. I am certainly not a website designer. I am tech savvy only because I am working for a Managed Care Organization (MCO) that is constantly updating their systems and/or changing to new ones. CHANGE is really a part of life. You can try to avoid it and get left behind. You’ll get trampled by the crowd moving ahead. The landscape of your life never remains the same. People change, your body changes, relationships change. Adjustments are required. Push pause for a moment. Gather your thoughts. You can walk toward it, smiling but scared. Do it afraid. My breast cancer diagnosis stopped me in my tracks. I could not push rewind and modify the medical facts. I had to move forward in a foreign land. At first embracing change is like hugging a porcupine. You get prickled all over, but hug it you must. The gears in your brain are grinding and your heart is pounding. You grease the gears and the neurons start firing. The quills on the porcupine morph into soft fur as your body begins to move rhythmically to a new tune. You got this! You can do anything you set your mind to do. You may need to gather some additional resources, like call a friend, sister, or son. In this case, developing a website, I declared I wanted to do it myself. But my back up will be my son, Brian. He has promised to bail me out if I get locked up in tech jail.