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What's going right?

Early this morning the Illuminated Mind blog gave me food for thought to contemplate throughout this grey and drizzly day. On a day in which the world’s stock markets continue to plummet a brilliant question was posed:

What is right in your life?

It’s a common theme of this and many other blogs – and probably in the flavour of our age – to identify problems and propose solutions. For a moment however, step back appraise your life with and honest appreciation of what is right. What is right, and good and pleasing to you.

What is right in my life?

• I have started writing again, and that makes my soul smile. I quit blogging back in ’04, and have missed the clarity, education and self-discovery that accompanies the simple act of penning my thoughts.
• I am glad that I owe little. My independence has taken me down several dark, uncharted paths, and I am pleased that I have been lucky enough to learn from my journeys while always seeming stumble back into the light. I’m glad that those whom I do owe, are those people for whom the mere suggestion of repayment would be an insult.
• On balance, my life feels right at the moment. Since the beginning of the year, in particular, I’ve gradually regained a certain equilibrium, by reducing my sense of regret and increasing my sense of ambition; pressing forward with focus.
  To be fair, it isn’t down to me alone. I’ve been reading several blogs (amongst others); watching the West Wing (finally); and reading books like a madman. In fact, if there is one thing that inspired this trajectory – it is an amazing novel: “The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy.

While banks crash and short days beckon, I enjoy my life and liberty. That’s right.

How about you? What is right in your life?