What is this, a test? - Day 9 of 90

Oh, I know it isn't always about me, and I understand the rain comes or not as the weather changes in the northeast, and my brother told me years ago, that I wasn't in charge of the weather (probably when I was complaining); so yes, I do know the rain isn't here as a test to my willpower.

But, on the other hand it is always a test. We always have to make choices, and today I REALLY didn't want to go out in the rain again. Yes, I also know that yesterday I said no excuses, and it wouldn't (didn't) kill me but still I just didn't feel like getting wet. I contemplated using the elliptical machine but couldn't picture myself for an hour on a machine-even listening to music-so out I went. After all it wasn't dangerous, there was no thunder or lightning. I haven't used the machine many more than a dozen times in as many years, so it had probably be in the yard sale so someone else can get more use out of it (and the space freed up in the basement).

Yesterday when I went walking I found 13 cents. I thought about the adage “Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck”. I don’t believe that luck is a real thing. One can have good days and better days and some days that aren’t so pleasant, but Luck? I just don’t see it. Certainly there are blessings and times when we don’t see the blessing in evidence, but all in all I don’t subscribe to luck. I wondered though if being observant and paying attention to the small details like 3 little pennies along a sidewalk or a dime in the road; all of which were not there yesterday when I went by-if that attention can make its own luck? Can watching the world go by at the speed of the automobile bring with it a lost ability to see ones surroundings? If I pick up a penny a day, after a year, I’ll have enough for a cup of coffee or a card for a friend. Those sound nice.

81 to go.