Howdy and happy Friday,
How is everyone doing today? Ready for another amazing weekend? What do you all have planned? Will you spend it recouping from the week, or will you spend it with family and freinds? I’m sure whatever you have planned, it will be a wonderful weekend. Make those memories, take those photos, they will forever be treasured.
Lately it seems like there’s been more drama then normal that I’m not really a part of, but I do have someone dear to me that reaches out about what’s going on in her life and the tole the petty, childish, assinign stuff going on in her world is taking on her. She keeps telling her family members to let stuff go, move on and stop with the bickering and pouting. Some people just don’t get it and prefer to live in misery. I think there’s a saying that goes something like, “misery needs company.” I think that’s true. It’s almost like people who are unhappy are looking for things missing in their life, rather then being grateful for what they have. “Don’t let someone’s bitterness kill your spirit. Happiness is not a crime, so never feel guilty for showing it. Let your light shine today and don’t worry about who it makes uncomfortable.”-quotesgram.com.
I have a frenenemy. This person reminds me of what my friend is going through with her family right now. It’s almost like, when things are calm and going well, these negative people can’t handle it and find a way to throw a wrench into the mix. I often wonder, why can’t we just enjoy the journey? Why is it that we sometimes feel things are off when things are going smoothly, or why is it we say things like, “oh, this won’t last long, something bad is going to happen.” It’s almost as though we throw out to the Universe a negative vibe and sit back and wait for that bad thing to happen to us, then we justify it by saying, that’s the way life is. I know I’m guilty of that. I sometimes think something won’t last long or it’s too good to be true. When I have these thoughts, all I’m doing is wasting time enjoying the amazing ride of goodness and happiness.
From all my readings lately, I have come to realize, it’s okay to want to be happy and it’s okay to sometimes limit or even let certain people go in your life and be thankful for what they taught you while being a chapter in your book. “Sometimes you have to let everything go. Purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything, whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it, because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”-Tina Turner. You see, some people just can’t be happy for your success, so they try and bring you down. Sometimes, people are jelous of you, sometimes, they simply aren’t happy in their own life and they don’t want to change, and that’s okay, because that’s their choice, just like it’s our choice to decide how we handle things and what we want in our life.
My friend is spent. She’s hit the wall and is making the choice to end the conflict, no matter what that looks like. I applaude her for making it a priority to sit down with the drama person in her life and lay the cards on the table to see if they can come to terms. While she knows she won’t change this person’s personality, she is hoping to have her better understand what the negative dynamics is doing to the family and she’s hoping that they can figure out a way to work things out. I love that she sees her worth and that she doesn’t deseve to have conflict and negativty in her life and she’s choosing her happiness over the drama.
Sometimes we don’t see our own self worth. We weren’t made to settle. God made us to be happy, I mean, look what he’s given us to enjoy in this world. We don’t have to wait for some paradise that is in the future. A loving God wouldn’t hold that over us and make us strive to serve him so we can be happy in the future. He gives us everything we need now. Sure, we have troubles in life, we struggle and we suffer grief and pain, but those aren’t things we deserve, they are things that in some weird way, make us stronger and hopefully, draw us closer to our creator. We don’t need to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, that belongs to God. We don’t deserve to be sad.
We deserve to be happy, and live our dreams. We deserve love, abundance and prosperity, we deserve the best. It’ll take work, and I believe that work starts with our attitude. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Let things go. “The bigget barrier to happiness is associating with miserable and angry people. The term, misery loves company is a misnomer. Misery needs company. Miserable people must justify their misery. They will make you miserable at any cost. Surround yourself with happy people. You will be happy.”-missinglink/miserablepeople.
The more we surround ourselves with what we deserve, the closer we’ll be to getting it. Happiness doesn’t cost a dime. What it does cost is a postive attitude and doing what you love. Happiness is living the best life you can without the negative. Life gives us enough obsticales, so jump in, navigate them and keep going. I saw a post today from AGT and it was about a young, 30 year old, beautiful woman who has been battling cancer for a several years. Her name is Jane, but when singing she goes by Nightbird. She sang a song that she wrote, “It’s Okay.” When she was done singing, she had this to say, “‘last time I checked, I had some cancer in my lungs, my spine and my liver, she told the audiance, ‘it’s important that everyone knows I’m so much more than the bad things that happened to me.” Her smile and glow were amazing. She lit up the stage and then, she said this, “I have a two percent chance of survival, but two percent is not zero percent. Two percent is something and I wish people knew how amazing it is.”
Nightbird recieved the golden buzzard, and she deserved it, not only for her singing, but for her attitude. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”-Nightbird. She embraces her life. What an amazing example of how precious life is. Nobody deserves cancer, or anything else that brings us pain, so I guess my point is this, nobody deserves to have someone treat you badly, especially over petty things. Life is too short to blow up the small stuff and cause someone so much sadness, all because they aren’t happy with their own life.
Love Life. You deserve to live a happy life, even if when we’ve been give hardships, God wouldn’t give us more than we can handle. We become, hopefully stronger, when we face difficulties. There’s no room in this life to have someone intentionally add to your hardtimes. You, me, all of us, deserve nothing less then the best. We all deserve to Love Life++
Enjoy your weekend. Hugs to all….
Love Life with Dawna 