The Modern Siren

This morning my kids saved me some bacon.

Now, this might seem to be an odd statement to start with you so let me fill you in:

My dad always told me that it’s just as expensive to cook a pound of bacon as it is to cook a couple of strips. And I’ve followed that advice, literally, all of my life. Whenever I cooked bacon I cooked the whole package and what I didn’t eat went into a container and was saved in the fridge for another time.

Then I was married… then there were kids. And my whole routine was interruped because they all thought that cooked bacon was a snack, instead of something that I just cooked extra of for my next breakfast (it might help you to know that these are my step-children from my wife’s first marrieage).

But I went along with this, just pleasantly reminding them that I liked bacon with the eggs I cooked for my breakfast, while the were all asleep and I was beginning my day.

After a while, they realized that the fact of not snacking on the cooked bacon became gift to me for my mornings. And today, this morning, I had bacon.

I had faith that change would happen, even if it was slow to appear.

You are in control of the enviroment around you, even if you think you aren’t.

If you have learned one thing from your life experiences so far it is that there is always daylight at the end of the tunnel, at the end of the experience you have there is an ending, which is really a transition period to the next event/adventure that is starting.

You are in control of your life as it happens, in real time. And only if you give up that control are you lost, but you have the strength (I know you do after all you found me!), and the tools, to never be lost.

To never be lost again.