Post 1284, Day 272 of 2014
- 1,368 days since I started this blog -
- 1,368 days since I started this blog -
Happiness is a decision, right? I think it works better as a positive decision ('I am happy now') than as a negative ('I won't let things make me unhappy'), but maybe they're equally effective/ineffective.
Because I'm not sure.
A few years ago, and a few years after hitting a low point, another negative came my way, and I just decided that going forward with optimism and a positive attitude, assuming that difficulties perceived in the present were temporary, enabled me to endure a period of unemployment and insecurity without worry or fear.
And I did the near-impossible: Landed a good job at age sixty during a terrible economy/employment period. It took a little over three months, and I suffered almost no financial setback.
And I've been happy. I am happy. Sitting in my cubicle at work writing this, I'm feeling kind of 'up'. When I don't pay any attention to how I'm feeling, I smile (so I'm told - I'm 'famous', locally, for smiling all the time, especially when I'm playing music).
I'm certainly grateful, but also aware that this is a different kind of happiness than what I've been pursuing all my life - it isn't always joy, it isn't always orgasmic. Rather, it is a sort of balanced happiness, or a happiness that comes from a sense of balance. A sort of acceptance that whatever is currently going on allows happiness.
It isn't a possessive happiness, either. It doesn't feel like an acquired or earned happiness.
More like a discovered happiness - it was there all the time, I guess, and right now, it is exposed yet not vulnerable.
And it will change, but still be happy.
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Food and Diet Section
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| 2014 Daily Weight |
Previous Weight*: 205.6 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 3.6 lbs
* Friday, Sep 26
Diet Comment
Oh, the weekend. Things took a turn for the too-bad beginning at a slightly rushed before-gig dinner eating fried haddock (fail!) on a bun (fail!) with fries (fail!). And went south from there. Nothing to do but make this a better week.* Friday, Sep 26
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
Lunch
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (24g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, celery, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend. And a Quest bar.
Dinner
Quest bars.
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 112+ oz.
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I think being optimistic and having a positive attitude is definitely the way to go. So many people don't make changes because of fear and we know that fear is the mind killer. People stay in jobs they hate because they're afraid of what will happen if they quit. But how does that leave room for change? It's like when you keep doing the same thing, but expect a different result. I say PMA (positive mental attitude) is the way to go. I'm glad you're happy and yes, you've got a great smile although I think this picture of you is kind of weird because it looks like you have no teeth. Just my opinion. Dobie
ReplyDeleteI agree with you.
DeleteOptimism and positivity are defaults for me. It has always come naturally. I don't understand pessimism. People don't understand change, and fear what they don't understand. Mostly, though, people are afraid when they think about the future, since it is unknowable. In my view, depression comes from thinking about the past, fear from thinking about the future. A pessimistic attitude can't be maintained in the present. Ask someone why they're pessimistic and they trot out all kinds of history to show how, in the past, negative things happened, and there is 'no reason to think that will change' in the future. Pessimism, therefore, takes the most negative things that have already happened and projects them onto the future.
I agree, also, about the picture. Nothing I can do about this pic's lack of teeth - the original is too small to do some kind of edit there. This is a quick selfie I took to send to Alex.I might re-shoot.
Now that you mention the toothless look, it is really bothering me. I need to change the picture out, at least until I can re-take it, con dente...
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