THE GLAD GAME

"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."
And when we do that life seem more negative and harder to deal with.

I've been watching Pollyanna and in the show she plays this game called The Glad Game
Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game", an optimistic attitude she learned from her father. The game consists of finding something to be glad about in every situation. It originated in an incident one Christmas when Pollyanna, who was hoping for a doll in the missionary barrel, found only a pair of crutches inside. Making the game up on the spot, Pollyanna's father taught her to look at the good side of things—in this case, to be glad about the crutches because "we don't need 'em!".

So I've made a goal to find something to be glad about in my every day life, and today I'm glad I've got legs, legs that work. I'm able to jump, skip, hop, twirl, run, walk, jog, and tap. I say this cuz my sister dragged me out of the house today so we could go for a run... oh boy I'm so out of shape. But it felt good when i was done. So i'm thankful for working legs and that makes me glad. =)