GET OVER IT by Brenda Whiteside

I'm not one to worry too much about failure. That moment, that hour, even that day, I might scream or cry or feel dismally imperfect. But once the sun sets and the night absorbs the frustration, the sunrise brings on a new beginning. I took to heart a saying from the sixties - today is the first day of the rest of your life.

There was one year...I got myself into a funk thinking about the things I should've accomplished and hadn't...by the ripe old age of thirty. I laugh at myself now to think of the depression I allowed myself because I'd not done what I thought I should've by my thirtieth birthday. All those years ahead of me to keep on keeping, and I wanted to call myself an abject failure. But I got over it.

I'm not saying don't look back, but don't do it with regret or with the idea of embracing failures. If you can look at the supposed failure and gain something from it, then you're a success. Another cliche from a recent song I totally love is - breathe in, breathe out, move on. Get the idea?

The only true failure is to do nothing at all. So, as my daddy used to say, "do something even if it's wrong."

I'll end with one more favorite line from an Eagle's song: "Get over it!"

By the way, the first book in my romantic suspense Love and Murder series, releases May 2. I'm jazzed.

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