I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately, not seeing the good in much of anything…not really understanding the point of much I’ve previously enjoyed. Today I challenged myself in a very basic, and yeah, stupid-sounding way. While working on graphics, etc., I usually listen to music. You know how when you buy or download a CD, how there is always at least one song that you don’t care for or really irritates you? My stupid-sounding challenge for the day was to listen to every song that came through the rotation, no matter how awful, and try to find the good in it. The reason that someone else might have liked it enough to record it. Something positive in the thing that normally offends my ears for whatever reason. I think it’s helping in some small, strange way. I think my next step will be to transfer this practice into thinking about the people I interact with on a daily basis (mostly the ones that irritate or irk me). What is good about these people? Everyone has something worthwhile about them. I’ll teach myself to look for it. After that is completed, I’ll turn the aim onto myself. Not something I particularly enjoy, but something that I’ve needed to do for a while.