Musings . . . Exactly,
this is a great post, just because it hits the nail on the head about being happy.
I’m not special or extraordinary. I don’t have any talents like singing (my children’s choir director actually told me not to stand so close to the microphone) or dancing (I tried out for cheerleading once.. my gymnastic movement? a somersault..like the kind when you just roll on the floor); I could probably stand to lose 5 pounds; sometimes I judge a book by its cover; and right now I have a heinous bug bite right next to my belly button, so every time I scratch it, it looks like I’m picking in my belly button.
But, every once in a while, I get this feeling of my heart just swelling up. It starts to feel like it is literally going to burst and from it will spew all the love I’ve been holding inside it. It will reach out and cover my husband (because I love him), my boss (because I’m thankful for a job), the server at the Busy Bee (who brings me a Sting), or anyone else nearby.
I’ve realized that I haven’t always felt this way. I had to train myself to be happy. It’s so easy to focus in on the bad things. Case in point:
- Marriage is really, really, really, hard but when I find myself dwelling on a he said/she said argument, I remember how last night he let me watch the Real Housewives of NJ or poured me a glass of wine without me asking, or scratched my back before going to sleep. I’m not perfect and neither is he, but love is letting each other grow and change, and then growing even more together.
- Sometimes my job (or any job) really sucks. No, my life goal was not to sit at a cube with two computer screens in front of me for 8 hours every day. But you know what? I still have my job and sometimes I get to do really cool stuff and I for that I am supremely grateful.
- Those 5 pounds I need to lose? Extra cushion for sitting at aforementioned cube.
- My belly button bug bite? I nourished another of Earth’s creatures! Hahahaha! Actually, if I had seen that bug, I would have squashed it right there, but you get my drift.
So come on people, be happy! Life is too short!
More happy inspiration:
It’s raining? Good excuse to sleep in!
Down on yourself because you ate an extra helping of ice cream? But wasn’t it so gooooood!
Jealous of that girl with the perfect hair? I bet she thinks you have great legs!
Want a more glamourous/higher paying/famous/cooler job? Think of all the unemployed college graduates who would take your job in a heartbeat.
