Celebrate You

1.6 billion: The number of times my computer has told me I am infected with spyware (or so it seems).

This has not been the easiest week so far. This Saturday Kaitlyn and I will be going to two different area Krogers to help people apply for Medicaid (without using the Benefit Bank, those sillies) for this event called Cover the Uninsured. It's only a few hours in the morning, so it's not really a big deal, but no one likes working on Saturdays.

Yesterday I went to a training in Troy, where for some reason or another they were not aware that the OBB had reserved the computer lab there. Fortunately, it was only booked in the morning. Unfortunately, we had to start the class about 20 minutes late until it freed up.

Today my computer has been popping up messages every two minutes telling me that it has been infected with spyware. Not really sure what to do in this case. I'm not going to pay to install the security system it keeps recommending. And other than the annoying pop-ups, it's running completely fine. So I'm going to go ahead and pretend all is well.

So, enough complaining. I just wanted to share something that always cheers me up when I am down. I got this poem(?) when I was at a conference for the Ohio Benefit Bank. We were supposed to be learning about customer service. It turned into some kind of hardcore, confidence-boosting hugfest. You'll laugh, you'll cry, your heart will melt into a pile of warm goo.

Or you'll just laugh.

Enjoy.

CELEBRATE YOU
You are worth celebrating.
You are worth celebrating.
You are unique.
In all the world, there is only one you.
There is only one person with your talents,
your experience, your gifts.
No one can take your place!
You are precious.
You have immense potential to love, to care,
To create, to grow, to sacrifice,
if you believe in yourself.
It doesn't matter your age, or your color,
or whether your parents loved you or not.
(Maybe they wanted to, but didn't know how.)
Let that go, it belongs to the past; you belong to the now.
It doesn't matter what you've been, the wrong you've done,
the mistakes you've made, the people you've hurt. You are
forgiven. You are accepted, you're ok.
CELEBRATE YOU.
Begin now. Start now. Give yourself a new birth. Today.
You are you, and that is all you need to be.
You are temporary. Here today and gone tomorrow.
But today, today can be a new beginning, a new thing, a
new life. You deserve this new life, it is given freely. That
is the miracle called life.
So celebrate the miracle and CELEBRATE YOU!

I hope that made everyone who reads this a better, well-adjusted and confident individual.