Sunny Side UP

Then there are days that are good ~ not because of any spectacular happening but because you take stock of your life and gratitude washes over you, and you think just maybe I am on track after all.

The children didn’t fight with each other, the man you love held you, the roses are blooming, there was a late afternoon thunderstorm and I lay on my bed looking out of the windows watching the rain.

Because of this I am able to shelve all the things that will have to be dealt with that I am not looking forward to ~ I have learnt a new skill! I have discovered that you really can put things aside for a day or a weekend, I can acknowledge their existence and say today you don’t get any head space because today I have other things to do and other things to think about and in due course you will get your turn, you will have my attention when it is appropriate but for now you shall not hang over me like the Sword of Damocles.

I have also learnt a new game to paly with myself ~ I choose three “happy” words like Rejoice, Delight, Glorious, Bliss, Joy, Untroubled, Content ~

and during the course of my day I slip them into the conversations I have,  it reminds me of what is good and to talk about it. It is truly amazing how if you determinedly steer your conversations toward a topic where you might be able to use a word like Jubilant where the path your interactions will take you, how the people you speak to will respond in kind.

This much I know is true – people wound swop, if you talk about some dreadful experience the person you are talking to is socially conditioned to respond in kind, they will dredge their memory if necessary to produce and match you an oranges of oranges tale of woe. The same is true of  pleasure, joy and happiness.