... or perhaps... what I am trying to re-invent myself into... and what I am up against...
As a scientist over the years, I've fallen into the "Eeyore" mentality. Eeyore, the wonderful little grey donkey from A.A. Milne's Christopher Robinson and Winnie the Pooh stories, is typically pessimistic, down cast and sad, decidedly not energetic. He is cast as a victim "woe is me", but everyone still loves him. Whereas his complete contrast character, Tigger, is a bouncy happy and overly optimistic tiger animal, who often has blatant disregard for how things are in the forest. Some may have a love-hate relationship with the "Tigger"s in our lives.
I've been imagining in the past month or so, that I've snapped out of my Eeyore mentality... but it comes back to haunt me sometimes, and I slip into my old habits. I don't imagine myself becoming totally Tiggered and overly optimistic, but I can move along the spectrum towards it. There's other things I can do, other than all the positive steps I've made so far... so I am gonna get out and do them!!
