What If We Chose Happiness?

Oh my goodness! You would think that our city has been told that we will not have food or water or heat for sixty days the way people are complaining lately…

Instead, let me remind you: winter is a season. February is a month where winter is normal. What we are experiencing is winter….and some people like it. However, I speak from experience when I say that saying I like snow and winter gets you dirty looks and scowls.

Today, it started snowing again…I drove to the end of my street, the deer were coming out of the woods…and it was magical with the snowy background.

Am I cold? Of course. Is my car disgusting? Yes, it certainly is…but we never get this much snow…and I’m absolutely loving it.

Today, as I walked out of my gym and almost fell in the sloshy snow…I grumbled. When my car made a screeching sound as I tried to stop to abruptly for a red light, I did in fact panic.

However, if I grumble about it…will it change it? Or I could just embrace the beauty of it…I sure will feel a lot better.

Through all the grumbling I realized first of all how irritating it is for me when people don’t love my season…and how much it hurts me when they say how much they hate something I love. Then I realized…I do it also.

My least favorite season is summer. How I hate summer. I hate sweating. I hate how so many things are jam packed into summer…I hate the clothes. I hate the bugs and the sunburns. I hate the constant applying of sunscreen.

However, I realized…I’m just as bad as those who hate my favorite season…and how very exhausting it must continue to be to hear someone constantly complain.

What if we chose happy? What is something you’ve wanted to do? Something you’ve wanted to change? Something you’ve wanted to learn?

I have found that I’m happiest and the most content when I seek to do the things that bring me peace and joy.

If you are busy doing things you love…you don’t have time to sit around and complain about things you ca not change.

I started back with soap making….

I started playing piano again, writing again…and the difference has been unreal.

There is no doubt that constant changing is the mind is hard work. We are wired to look at the negative, it’s harder to look at the positive.

There are so many hurting people right now…so many that need to hear positive messages, but-most of us are too busy complaining about things we can’t change to notice.

Today, I was grumpy…it was like an Eyore kind of day…and the snow is beautiful but -13 is a bit ridiculous here in the Midwest, I honestly feel we need medals after we get through this week.. I’m gonna have to put some things into place again to help with anxiety…one of them being to turn off the news.

Tonight, I was with friends…eating fish from a fish fry…and discussing life…the ups and downs..the good and bad. My soul, my belly, my spirit was instantly lifted.

The world seems big and heavy and helpless…but we can make a difference one friend, one community, one kind word at a time. Try it….we are better together!