...every time I open the refrigerator door.

I'm thinking today about how we try to make sense of our lives. How we interpret our lives. And how we can choose our perspectives. Daily. Happy or unhappy. Optimistic or pessimistic. Confident or unconfident. Or often somewhere inbetween. Some days I think a whole lot. I'm preoccupied with myself. Within. And I notice virtually nothing going on around and about me. I am not living in the immediate world. But other days, I am acutely aware of my surroundings. I notice every little thing. Every detail. Anyway, I have a note attached to the refrigerator door with a magnet. It reads, "Remind myself that I am an alive and conscious being." And I do that every time I open the refrigerator door. --Jim Broede