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I do get why people post this stuff. They mean no harm at all. They are usually super happy, smiley, ever cheerful people themselves, who are just lovin life SO much that they only want that for you as well. Because they love you. They love life. They want you to love life right there with them.
But really it's not always possible to CHOOSE to be happy, is it? I guess it is for some. I'm sure somewhere, at some time there was SOMEONE who got a terrible, life threatening diagnosis & it totally didn't piss on their parade. Right? I've yet to MEET that person. Or maybe I have. I dunno.
O & I were talkin about this sort of stuff the other day, and we came to the conclusion that, the majority of people who appear to be all Happy Happy Joy Joy, like ALL the time, have never had to face their own mortality or be concerned about where they & their family will sleep that night, or any stuff equally as terrifying. OR, the exact opposite is true. They are miserable, unhappy & just trying to find their way back to happy with these lovely affirmations.
I don't have issues anymore with seeing these quotes & stuff everywhere, really, so please don't think that's what this post is tryin to say...at all. I'm just sayin...folks, try to keep in mind that for some, Happy may just have to be put on hold for a bit. Could be a few hours, days, weeks....maybe even months or years. Some will never be happy again. I, thankfully, am not one of those people. I have found my way back to happy. For the most part. I could be way happier, too. But I can tell you this. There was a good long stretch of time that seein that stuff posted in my news feeds had the exact opposite effect for me.
Not sayin anybody should change anything about what they say or do, or post online, or feel or whatever. Just another random musing....thoughts...
I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.
3 comments:
Just getting to this comment. I fell the same. Give me a break, sometimes I just don't feel happy and it's not the end of the world. I don't have a problem with depression so I don't think that allowing a little sadness is a bad thing. It does allow me to see the other side of things. So I can understand how other people feel. I think you are right that a lot of those "always happy" people may have not had to face anything tough or they just put their head in the sand and wish it away. The hubby said to me once (when he had been our drinking for hours) that I needed to be cheerful. Because if I was not cheerful, he could not be either. I told him to either quit doing things that made me less cheerful or get used to not being. He eventually got it figured out. LOL
Agreed!
Hi Eileen! Thanks so much for checkin out my blog & commenting here. I like the way you said it better on your blog. :)
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