I spent this morning walking round one of my favourite bits of Surrey.  It was pouring all the time we were out.  Odd as it sounds we really didn’t notice.   The thing is that we had on the right gear, and as we knew from the start that we would get wet, we didn’t need to spend anytime wondering or worrying about  it.

That got me thinking about all the times we spend worrying about “What if this happens?  What if that happens?!?”  It drains our energy and ruins our day, and, more often than not, it doesn’t happen!  And yet we have lived through all our imagined horrors. 

If we prepare as best we can and just get on with it is amazing how little we notice the ‘rain’, and if it happens, we are in the best state to handle whatever actually occurs.  Dealing with reality, in the moment is so much better than fighting imaginary monsters and ‘what ifs’.

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.   Roger Miller

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.”  Rabindranath Tagore