Tigger

A few years ago I had heard that there was a book out there that I needed to read. It wasn't a book about Lupus or anything related to my disease, it was a book about Randy Pausch and his final months living with terminal cancer. He lectures about remembering your childhood dreams and how each and every one of us has the ability to achieve these dreams no matter what hand we are dealt in life. He reflects on his life and how he was able to make his dreams come true with a little help from persistence, courage and love. 

Tim and I watched The Last Lecture and we have the book on our bookshelf. This found us at a time when we almost had given up. Life was tough and every road we turned down it seemed we ran into a brick wall. Randy Pausch talks about these brick walls. He simply states that these walls are not there to keep us out but they are there to push us to be better......as he puts it,"They are there for the other people." The ones who run into a roadblock and turn and choose to go down an easier path. It is a simple philosophy that resonates in all of us. 

It was a humbling moment when you realize life is not that bad and everything will get better and things could always be worse. I love how he poses the question are you a Tigger or an Eeyore in this life. Will you sulk and feel sorry for yourself or will you shrug and say oh well? 

I choose to be a Tigger and as Tigger puts it:

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things. 
Their tops are made of rubbers
The bottoms are made of springs.
They're
Bouncy,
Flouncy,
Trouncy,
Pouncy,
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!!!

The wonderful thing about Tiggers 
Is I'm the only one 

I'm the only one !