Don't stop believing

I love to put 'themes' or 'slogans' to the current state of my personal and professional life. I guess mainly because I needed to push myself, motivate myself to become better than what I am. For 9 months now, the code that I tried to live by was 'One step at a time. One day at a time'. The first few months was really very difficult to get through each day, but truly, time slowly heals wounds. For 9 months I finally learned by heart what one by one, one at a time means. I'm still learning to be patient with myself but my mind has embraced this slogan. I feel a lot better now and last week while I was in the steam sauna, a thought ran through me. I'm ready to change my slogan. So, starting August, it will be 'don't stop believing', a title from one of Journey's songs. I've gone passed the most difficult way to recovery but I'm still struggling to believe that something better will come along. I need to re-enforce that faith as I take each day at a time.

On a lighter side, today is tennis day. I play tennis only once or twice a year so it is something I look forward to. But I need to be careful so I don't break any bones or stress muscles too much. I still have swimming lesson tonight...which brings me back to my slogan 'don't stop believing'..it's been a slow journey, but someday I'll be able to swim.