Choose wisely my child, your life is in your hands

I'm thinking it's about time for a bit of a more uplifting tone in here again. For God's sake, we don't want to loose the only three readers we have, now do we? So be happy, Bettina, it's not that hard! Now, can I see a bit of a smile coming up there? Good, that's much better.

We tend to take ourselves awefully serious I find. That of course includes my humble self. And I actually think it's a very natural thing, considering we are inside ourselves all the time, it's hard to escape our own rambling thoughts sometimes. We can't really focus on other things as long as our minds won't shut up. But you can train the mind and there's all kinds of tricks. Only usually you can't think of them when you're feeling all down. But as soon as we start to get it together again, at least partially, we should remember how volatile a thing our beautiful mind is. I argue that it cannot clearly distinguish between real and created emotions. Meaning, whether we are genuinely happy or we pretend we are and display all the common features of happiness, it has a similar effect on our mind. The trick is to get it thinking we are happy and then take it from there. Most of the time, the real happiness will soon follow suit as freedom and clarity replace the heavy moments of darkness. Of course it also works the other way around. People who tend to see themselves as unlucky and depressed will no doubt actually become unlucky and depressed. Being sad is often a choice, as much as being happy is. I think it's all in our hands.

Today, I choose to be balanced, with a bit of calm happiness. It's going well so far.