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Happiness can mean work. Yes, happiness doesn’t always just land on our doorstep or wait for us on the carpet beneath our feet as we tumble out of bed each new day. Sometimes we have to go looking for it. Or, even harder, we have to create it.
Sounds daunting and, yet, it’s empowering. Create our own happiness? So, if it’s not just there waiting for us to absorb it, we can make it happen? Yes! Every day. Every moment. Regardless of what’s going on.
Now, this isn’t to say that in the face of tragedy or depression or other challenges, we can just paint on a happy face and all will be well. It does mean, however, that we always retain our power to choose.
In times of darkness, we may choose to feel the depths of sadness and I think that is a good choice. We need to feel our feelings to work through them. In fact, there’s almost nothing worse than painting on a happy face and pretending we are unaffected by tragedy. I don’t mean to be judgmental. We all do what we need to do to put one foot in front of the other and many of us have not experienced feeling, acknowledging, and, God forbid – talking about our feelings.
However, feelings are funny things. Like bad pennies, they keep showing up.
We can cover them, hide them, make them into something else but the original, raw feeling is deep down in there somewhere, waiting to resurface, perhaps when we least expect it.
So, I aim to choose to feel my feelings. I’m not awesome at it all the time but it’s a goal. In doing this, I don’t always choose happiness, but that’s a goal, too. In fact, it’s kind of an end goal. To get there, I may have to choose sadness, anger, shame, and guilt for a time, to get them out of my way on my path to happiness. In my experience, it’s the only way to get there. (Read more about these other feelings on our path to happiness here.)
When that bad penny shows up, instead of shoving it in a pocket or trying to ignore it, try bringing it out into the light in all its rawness, experiencing it and then cleaning it up so that its brightness can return?
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