Making The Best Of It

"Make the best of it. When you make the best of whatever you're focused upon, your future will be better than your now. If each moment you're making the best of what-is, no matter what it is, you make the best of it; make the best of it; make the best of it—your future just gets better and better and better, and better."  ---Abraham

I have sometimes thought it was a flaw to "make the best of it", and it is lovely to read that it is an asset.  And, what better advice could we, who are caregivers, get but to make the best of it.  Life has served up this circumstance that has created us being caregivers for someone else.  Our response, as caregivers, could be bitterness, anger, self-pity, etc.  How much better to know that life does contain challenges --- they may be purposeful in that they can help us develop spiritual muscle ---, and a wonderful response is to make the best of it.  It is a waste of time to think, 'why me?'.  It is far better to observe that we now have someone with dementia for whom we have some responsibility, and how do we make the best of it?  So, how do we make the best of it?  By looking for the good, by looking for the reasons to be grateful, by looking for the positive versus the negative, by providing respite for ourselves, by monitoring our own health, by being compassionate toward ourselves and the person with dementia.  How do you make the best of it?