Being happy

Was chatting to a guy from work on Sunday night, and he was angry! He is quite a pessimistic guy, down about something a lot. I spent a good amount of time talking with him, about the fact that life is full of crap and that people will hurt you and let you down, but being miserable and angry about it doesn`t do any good - it only hurts you! You can`t make the bad stuff in life go away, and whinging about it just wears you out and gives you ulcers and arthritis. It takes more energy to be angry at the bad stuff in your life than to be happy about the good stuff.

I don`t know how well I convinced him - he was smiling in the end, but who knows how he was the next day. Let me tell you how I was tho...

I woke up feeling GREAT! I was flicking thru photos of all you wonderful people, and the ones I loved best were the laughing faces just bursting with glee and enthusiasm! And it made me pray...

Papa God, fill me with Your supernatural joy, that I may live every moment overflowing with exuberant enthusiasm for life! And as it overflows, may it splash onto everyone around me!

...and I put on my Happiest Girl in the World t-shirt, some pink earings and my stripey pink toe socks (thanks Hope!), and just sat for a moment, wiggling my toes and revelling in the sheer bliss of having happy socks.

You see, optimists say the cup is half full, and pessimists say it is half empty, but the reality of life is that the volume changes on a daily basis, and it is never either full or empty - always somewhere in between. There is always bad stuff you can moan about AND good stuff you can sing about. In the end, regardless of how full your cup is, you have the choice to either moan or sing - which would you rather?