On Being Happy and Other Random Thoughts

Wandering the outback of the internet can be both amusing, a learning experience and also a real downer.  It seems most people want to dwell on the negatives. Perhaps it's because if they point out all the bad things, their lives might look better to them. Or maybe they just gave up being happy.

Since the Aurora Colorado shootings I have seen way too many posts and articles and news stories focusing on the shooter and not so much on the people living in the aftermath or those who died. I really dislike this.  What people will end up remembering is the nutter who perpetrated those acts and perhaps that is what he wanted. To draw as many people into his delusions as he could.  Also tired of seeing the gun argument.  Guns GOOD, guns BAD - blame game.  It reminds me of the arguments about how music or movies cause violence and not bothering to examine the minds of the people who act on the violence. 

I wrote this down at 1:30 this morning:

Be Happy!
Leave the past behind, take the lessons forward. Enjoy happy memories but don't drag the future up with you. Don't dwell on negatives. Live Here and Now.

I had no idea I was so smart in the wee small hours (haha)

Perhaps it was a tie in to my overall frustration at seeing the negative news blurbs and watching people fall into them, losing their happy thoughts.  Being happy can be hard work if you make it so.  Or you can just choose to let the negatives fall away and simply be happy.  There are always going to be negatives in the world. Acknowledge them but don't let them rule your mind. Make a difference by spreading positives into a cauldron of negatives.

It has been almost a years since I moved back to California.  For the first few months I was incredibly angry. I had no idea I was though. Not until I woke up one morning no longer angry did I realize just how deep the dark hole I had been in was. I  spent over 5 years being absolutely miserable and I am done with that.   I never considered myself the "happiness fairy," before, more like the "sarcastic but loving fairy."  But now that I am living here and now, I am doing my best to bring things to a positive light for myself and for anyone who wants to listen to me babble on.

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence" ~ Eric Fromm