Category: Happy/Useful/Wise

And the real life lesson is….

Today social media helped to reinforce something important after I posted a depressing and pessimistic status on Facebook.
I got blindsided by a punch to the heart earlier, and it sucked. For me, it helps a little to share how I am feeling, hence me sharing it there.
 
I thought about just deleting it, but changed my mind and instead am choosing to give a reminder:
 
Sometimes life hurts, and in that moment it seems like it’ll feel that way forever–even if logically you know better.
 
But, if you let yourself feel your pain and process it however you need to, the sooner you’ll get past it.
 
Today it just took an afternoon to feel ok again.
 
At my worst, it was a good 6 months of what felt like hopeless darkness and despair.
 
The same shitty thing still happened. It wasn’t a misunderstanding and nothing happened to somehow resolve the situation. I just let myself feel what I was feeling and worked through it the best I could instead of retaliating, stifling my feelings, or further victimizing myself.
 
You’ve probably felt that way before.
Maybe you are feeling that way right now.
Chances are it will happen again at sometime during your time here in the universe.
 
But remember:
Pain is temporary, and life gets better.

Choose a Direction

Everybody makes mistakes in life. That is unavoidable.
The things in our past that some may consider “mistakes” cannot be undone, and they all play a part in creating the version of us that exists today.

But, there is an important factor to reflect upon when reviewing your own progress in life or in assessing another individual:

A person on a positive life path, or someone you may define as a “good” person will own their mistakes, learn from them, alter their behavior, and try to make amends.

A “bad” person will deny, lie, make excuses, create diversions & cover up the truth–all while continuing the offense and likely adopting increasingly more harmful behaviors.

Which do you want to be?

What kind of people do you want to spend your life in close contact with?

Which do you want to be in positions of leadership on our planet?

It’s OK to not be happy all the time

I feel like I’ve been in a trap of not wanting to write about the things that aren’t positive because I want to have this image of being positive and progressive.

I also feel like I write a lot about why I don’t write enough.

It seems like an awful lot of excuses.

Today I was on Twitter and writing a #depressingdailythought.

I worried right after I wrote about it about what the possible implications could be of writing something sad or negative. How will that affect things when I want to grow my life mission into helping people? Won’t I look like a fraud if I do not always portray an image of happy-go-lucky bubbliness?

Later I was able to add in a #positivedailythought. Not because I HAD to, but because I WANTED to.

Truth is, that’s life. Things ebb and flow and we just make the most of it. I am OK with that. I can be a happy person without always being happy.  I can be progressive without always having a smile on my face.

Everyday for about 6 months now I have cared less and less about what other people think and have shared more about myself and my truth.

THAT is progress to me.

SIDE NOTE:

I went to look for an image about progress and small successes to go with this post. Damn near everyone is about weight loss/exercise/diet.

Shit- don’t people care about the mental well-being and happiness not tied up in your jean size?

Well, I do!