I CAN"T!!!

I have spent a goodly number of years saying "I CAN'T".

I can't lose weight.  I can't clean the basement.  I can't swim.  I can't, I can't, I can't.

Why not?  Because, because, because.

After fifty-odd years of belly-aching, I know I CAN.  I just WON'T.

Right now, my back hurts.  They dangled a paycheck in front of my nose.  I went to work.  My husband informed me that he has no clean t-shirts.  I did laundry.  No, don't even suggest that I tell him to do his own laundry.  He might decide to do mine, too, and then I will really have to lose a lot of weight to get into the stuff he will likely shrink....hmmmm. I feel a new wardrobe coming on...

So, you see, I CAN. 

The gas bill was late.  I CAN'T get there to pay it.  Well, there is online billpay, snail mail and pay-by-phone.  I'm just irresponsible.  I CAN'T clean the basement....well, I could, I really don't want to.  It's a big job.  I hate spiders and centipedes, both of which reside in the deep dark corners.  I CAN'T lose weight.  Well, I CAN, and I have before.  It's very difficult to exercise daily for a lazy lump like me (I make a couch potato look like a marathon runner), and it isn't fun giving up the goodies I like to eat.  I am diabetic; I shouldn't have them anyway, but I have a hard time refusing.

Usually, when we tell ourselves we CAN'T, we mean we WON'T or we DON'T WANNA.  There are legitimate "can'ts", I assure you.  I can't  do lots of things, like fly on my own power.  The rest of the CAN'Ts are inconvenient, too expensive, immoral or indecent--so I WON'T. 

My Dad used to say, "The impossible just takes a little longer."  Wise man.

This year, I am shedding a lot of my CAN'Ts and trading them in for  I'LL TRY and I WILL.

I WILL exercise.
I WILL lose weight.
I WILL pay my bills on time.
I WILL, I Will, i will, i will clean the basement. Oh, who am I kidding?