The ever elusive goal

Happiness. It's supposed to be a choice, isn't it? Then why does one helplessly every now and then get sucked into other people's unhappy little black holes?! It was my resolution this year to not crib, not be unhappy for the heck of it, to count my blessings .. so on and so forth. I am a MUCH better person as far as this aspect of my life is concerned - but I'm still not quite there yet. Negativity - I know what it looks and feels like, and I try to build a wall between it and my soul - but it somehow manages to sneak in. You can't avoid negative people entirely - especially at work - especially in my office, but there's got to be a way of not letting it impact you. I need to be positive enough to change the atmosphere there, rather than letting it change me. I really do!

Maybe it's because I let my meditation sessions slip every now and then. Discipline discipline discipline! Whatever it is, I need to exercise my happiness choice far more that before. The world is too beautiful, and my life is too awesome to be unnecessarily sad about stupid things that don't matter within hours, forget years.

Anyhow, that's all for today's sermon. I had to get it out somewhere.

P.S. Random Fact: Shakespeare was swinging both ways - just found out today thanks to a biography of the great playwright that I'm in the midst of. Maybe it was because of the regressive tradition of the Brits to only allow men on stage that people in that era never really knew their orientation. God knows. Apparently the Earl of Sounthampton was a very effeminate and pretty young man. UK has come a long way from killing men found to be gay to legalising gay rights. More power to love in this world!