{"id":1737,"date":"2011-08-09T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:12:02","slug":"todays-weather-forecast-lifes-what-you-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/todays-weather-forecast-lifes-what-you-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Weather Forecast: Life&#8217;s What You Make It"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/todays-weather-forecast-lifes-what-you-make-it\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F08%2F09%2Ftodays-weather-forecast-lifes-what-you-make-it%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>Ever talked about how &#8220;miserable&#8221; the weather is when it rains, or how &#8220;beautiful&#8221; it is when the sun is shining?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, we all like things bright and uplifting, but that notion takes away the all-important concept of yin and yang bringing equilibrium to the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Rain is refreshing, sunshine is delicious, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; John Ruskin, English critic and essayist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, there are positives and negatives in every experience, and it&#8217;s just your perspective that determines which side you see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changing your point of view is a choice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up another way, here&#8217;s one of my favorite &#8217;80s bands, Talk Talk, singing about how <em>Life&#8217;s What You Make It<\/em>:<\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:335px;\"><span id=\"vvq-1737-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXsmyLtpxlA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mXsmyLtpxlA\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping the Mysteries of Life!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever talked about how &#8220;miserable&#8221; the weather is when it rains, or how &#8220;beautiful&#8221; it is when the sun is shining? 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