Peter Pan

Last weekend I had tickets to see Peter Pan at one of very few local theatres. I must admit I felt quite stupid once the show started.

My five year old loved the show; he sat upright on the edge of his seat for the entire performance. He was sitting next to our neighbors five year old daughter and her six-year-old cousin. Yet he watched the show and did not act like a five year old.

At first I was confused. Who was this older woman swinging around in a Peter Pan outfit, I thought we were going to see Cathy Rigby up there swinging around! I kept looking and looking, rereading the program and it suddenly hit me. It was Cathy Rigby swinging around up there. Why she was as old as I am, yet I expected to see her as she was in her teens.

It did not dawn on me that she too aged. I remember watching her in the Olympics and that is the image that stuck in my head, so when we got the tickets it was that image I had expected to see. I did not expect to see a grandmother who could still do handstands and swing around on a cable.

it was a nice show and I did enjoy seeing it. My boy thought it was a great show, but he informed me that he can not do that again. I didn’t understand what he meant until I reevaluated his behavior.

We arrived before the neighbor, and when they did arrive he acted strange. he made sure he had the seat that would assure him a position of sitting next to the neighbors little girl, yet when she arrived and sat next to him he had a grin on his face and acted all giggly. I haven’t seen him act this way before around her.

So, his statement about not being able to do that again, it was his reaction to a change. Already at five he is sensing something different between boys and girls. How soon it starts, and where is my little boy going. I am not ready for this, and certainly not ready to lose my toddler.

Half full, or Half empty...

Never can quite get a handle around that saying, is the glass half full, or is the glass half empty? I do understand the meaning but can not get comfortable with it.

So, something I like better, or at least I can get a handle around it, is David and Goliath! Now the Army took one look at Goliath and said, " Wow, we cant take on that giant".

David however, took one look at the giant and said " Wow, he is so big how ccan I miss"! Now that i can understand.

Basically ythe same as the glass, but a much better visual for me. Goliath is the problem and with most problems they are so big they can seem daunting. Or, with them bieing so big, they can be simple to take on. In the case of David, he was able to take out Goliath with one stone. However with some problems it wont be one stone that will do the job.

Some years back in a sales seminar, i dont remember who the speaker was, but, the speaker presented us with a huge problem, or question. That was "how do you eat an elephant"? To be truthful I had absolutely no idea what they meant and why i could posibly want to know! Today I am not in sales thankfully.

The speaker old us it was simple. "One bite at a time"! Now that certainly made sense. Problems are the same, we take them one bite at a time. we see goliath and simple throw one stone at a time until we ware him down.

There are several problems on my plate that require this method right now. And when i was told to se ethe glass half full as oposed to half empty I could not get my arems around it and see the problem, rather the end of the problem. For me that analogy did not work.

Now I can see goliath standig there taunting me, and I can chip away at him until I prevail. This works.