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A Hallmark moment...
Feb. 20th, 2002 12:08 pmNo more looking back. Time to move forward.
Who builds a jungle gym next to a sheer cliff, covered with vines in the middle of a jungle, where man sized vaguely spider looking things wait to attack you?
My subconscious, apparently.
There's a lot of stuff coming up in the next few days. I've cleared my plate of painting for a while, and sure enough life interjects other games and raves and events to fill the time. Fortunately Sunday will be a day of rest.
Someone asked me a question about happiness last night. While the details are lost to my memory, it had to do with varying degrees of happiness or unhappiness to be more precise. I think that we are a little too used to looking at things negatively, of seeing contentedness as a bad thing. Variety and change can be good, but there's a lot to be said for tranquility too. It's easy to forget how good things can be.
When you get right down to it, if you are fully functioning, you are doing well. If you can hear your alarm go off, get out of bed, walk to the bathroom, see your reflection in the mirror, taste the toothpaste in your mouth, and smell the shampoo in your hair, you are head of the game. You never value those things until you lose them.
If you can feel the joy in those simple things, then it can take the sting out of other problems in our lives. Jobs can come and go, relationships come and go.
Right, this is getting far too saccharine right now...
Time to go shopping for some pants!
Who builds a jungle gym next to a sheer cliff, covered with vines in the middle of a jungle, where man sized vaguely spider looking things wait to attack you?
My subconscious, apparently.
There's a lot of stuff coming up in the next few days. I've cleared my plate of painting for a while, and sure enough life interjects other games and raves and events to fill the time. Fortunately Sunday will be a day of rest.
Someone asked me a question about happiness last night. While the details are lost to my memory, it had to do with varying degrees of happiness or unhappiness to be more precise. I think that we are a little too used to looking at things negatively, of seeing contentedness as a bad thing. Variety and change can be good, but there's a lot to be said for tranquility too. It's easy to forget how good things can be.
When you get right down to it, if you are fully functioning, you are doing well. If you can hear your alarm go off, get out of bed, walk to the bathroom, see your reflection in the mirror, taste the toothpaste in your mouth, and smell the shampoo in your hair, you are head of the game. You never value those things until you lose them.
If you can feel the joy in those simple things, then it can take the sting out of other problems in our lives. Jobs can come and go, relationships come and go.
Right, this is getting far too saccharine right now...
Time to go shopping for some pants!
