The Joy of Irony

It's funny sometimes, how the Universe works.  Yesterday, I posted on changing your physical being by your thought patterns, right?  Then last night, the Universe hits me- hard- and puts everything I said yesterday to the test.  Somehow, I manage to get a slight case of food poisoning.  The night was not pleasant, to say the least.  And now I sit here writing, as you would not want to see my face.  My eyes are beautifully swollen, and severely blood shot.  Last night, as I sat there hugging the porcelain throne, I will say that I did my best to put the thoughts into action.  I did manage to control my breathing, and kept the severe cramping in my stomach to a minimum.  It helped greatly that I had a few of my four-legged fur babies around me purring, trying to help keep me calm.  However, as with everything else, it's all a process.  One day, I do hope to have that ultimate control, as the monks do.  With practice, I believe it will happen.  They didn't learn it all overnight, after all.  It took them years of practice.  But that's one of the things I actually love about the Universe.  When you put yourself out there, for good or for bad, you will be tested.  You will experience things that you don't expect.  It may not be instantaneous, as it was with me last night.  But it will happen.  Will you live up to your talk?  Will you put your words into action?  It's so easy to say the words, whatever they may be.  But when the time comes for action, what's truly inside will come flooding to the surface.  Me?  I'm human (in part, anyway).  I make mistakes, and I'm definitely not perfect.  But I try. I work very hard and diligently towards putting my beliefs into action.  I may not always be entirely successful.  But I keep pushing forward and refuse to give up.  For me, only giving up would be a failure. And a line from a rather funny movie pops into my head:  "Never give up!  Never surrender!"  Funny movie, great line,  my personal motto?  Maybe.  My family motto (according to those "origins of your last name" thingies) is Dum Spira Spera:  While I breathe, I hope.  That's how I live my life.  Always hoping.  Always striving to be a better version of myself than I was yesterday.  Now, if I can just get rid of this swelling.....