Points2Ponder

"Life happens...when you're making other plans!"

                                     Points2Ponder

                                                                                                       By Alan P. Scaglone

I was supposed to be somewhere else this week.

Anybody ever have one of those weeks?

Dreams are meant to be dreamt – sometimes, even to be realized!

I had it planned since February—The National Book Convention!

I had been invited due to my new book One Unexpected Event that they published.

The meeting is normally in other places, like New York City or Dallas or LA!

But this year—this year, it’s in Orlando!

The city where I live (during the week!).

How convenient—How Perfect!

It’s a weeklong convention—and I had my vacation approved at work for the WHOLE WEEK. Sweet!!!

I was headed to my first book convention.

Remember the line “The best laid plans of mice and men!” ?

Yep—it was going to be a memorable week!

And then….it happened!

POINTS2PONDER  When are we allowed to feel a little bad…about doing the right thing?

A family situation arose—the right thing to do was…take care of the situation.

For those who know me best, they know… I AM that guy! The guy who does the right thing…whenever possible…it’s just the right thing to do…so, I do it!

Even WHEN it means…CANCELLING my Dream Week!

And so…I DID!

All of it—the whole week! Every event, every celebration, every opportunity!

All gone!

And I went to work this week…. Like if nothing else had ever been planned!

But…I have to admit…each night, I would allow myself to wonder?

“Wonder what the Concert was like Sunday night?”

“Wonder what the Reception was like Monday night?”

“Wonder what it would have been like to meet all those authors I interviewed?”

And then I stop, lecture myself and remember…

“I did the right thing! Bottom line, I did the right thing!”

But…then for a moment, I just ask…myself….

“Why does it feel so bad to do the right thing?”

And for some reason, a random thought comes in my head

Anybody remember the old Tammy Wynette song???

“I am a Christian Lord, but I’m a woman, too!”

I know… random right?

But it kind of does explain the plight we sometimes feel…

That age old fight between good and …self!

Sometimes…it’s NOT the devil who tempts us and makes us wonder…

Sometimes…it’s just life and all of the decisions that we are faced with.

Sometimes…it’s knowing the right thing to do…but also… knowing what you want to do!

Anybody else out there been through a moment, a day, a week like this?

We will do the right thing because…it’s the right thing to do—bottom line.

But sometimes, if we admit it, even if only to ourselves…it sometimes hurts to do the right thing!

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