*squirrel!!*
anyway. i started this piece of thought blathering to talk about happiness. happy happy happiness. who doesn't want happy? jeez. but you know what? a lot of the time life sucks. sometimes you can do something about it. sometimes you can't. it's just that simple.
i used to drive my statistics professor crazy. the fantasy stat would be "what is the percentage that tom cruise will walk through the bar tonight?"
me? 50/50. he either will or he won't.
oh. i was never popular with those bible games, either. the question would be "who wrote Acts?"
me? the Holy Spirit. duh.
i bet you wouldn't be surprised that i often answered my offspring's questions with "because i said so."
sometimes life can be really simple. either you can fix it or you can't.
you know what's tough on the quest to find happiness? unhappiness. it's the bright neon road cone of life. taunting. "i'm NOT happy! see me?!!!" yes, the cone of unhappiness.
in my quest for happiness i have joined a national study on happiness. (dudes! i'm throwing the curve!!) and have read and am reading again this book
the happiness study sends you quick quizzes during the day. i get three to four and different times every day. what this has made me realize is there are more times than not that i am doing something i do not have to do and it's not making me happy. well that's just silly. awareness. it's special.
if you do not want to be responsible for your happiness please do not read this book. mr. prager pretty much believes your happiness depends primarily on your own choices and more particularly actions. you can act happy or make happy actions when you don't feel like being happy. behavior. that's his gig.
so, i'm taking that principle out for drives occasionally. i do not care for going out by myself. i can actually get somewhat anxious about it. most times i'd rather just hang out at home. but this past weekend i decided i would act like a single person who really enjoys being by themselves and goes out and does stuff. still a little edgy at first but much easier once i got going.
i really don't believe there is anything novel about his theory. company mantra's have been built around "just do it". but sometimes you need someone to cut it up and feed it to you differently before it clicks. or maybe you have to be ready. as the author says, ready to grow up and act like an adult.
food for thought.
dance on people
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