Bah Humbug or It's a Wonderful Life ... it's your choice

Really?

Yes.

Let's talk George Bailey. Christmas looked pretty gloomy and overcast. In fact, it was snowing. Snowing so hard that it clouded George's vision and he wrecked his car. What else could go wrong? Could his life ever get better? Maybe his family would be better off if he never existed. The freezing water under the bridge looked like a quick way to end the suffering.

But ... freeze the frame.

Enter ... Clarence who jumped off the bridge instead and George had to jump in and save him. Clarence smiled all the way to shore. He knew what he was doing.

George, on the other hand, did not.

Life happens and sometimes you'll need someone to show you the way. When someone comes into yours and rescues you from fates unknown take the time to take stock and decide you're not drowning after all. You may be treading water but you are breathing. So get yourself to shore or let someone help you get there. Dry yourself off. Look at your life and what it would have been like without you in it. You have no idea how you have positively affected someone else's life in the past.

Without you, they would have drowned.

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