The key to happiness is accepting that things won’t always go my way, but there’s nothing wrong with smiling as though things are going my way anyway. This can be dangerous, because its easy to fall into this trap of toxic positivity, where we fail to acknowledge the negative impact that bad experiences can and will have on us.
Still though, I’m inclined to try a different approach to this thing here we call life. I’m sitting right by this place where this lady used to work. She always used to smile through her day unless she was really tiered, or something really terrible had happened to her. I kept on asking myself how on earth did she do it?
I think that so long as I am willing to face the heavy emotions that come with facing a tough wave of bad experiences, I can always count on the following opportunity to continue to be happy. I can’t stress how easy it is to fall under the false pretence that one is actually being positive, when really they’re just neglecting the magnitude of their harsh experiences.
For instance, right now I’m certain that turbulence waits for me in the horizon, and if I’m being truthfully honest with myself, I’m probably experiencing turbulence as I’m writing this down. Death has always been one of those things that clarifies exactly what it is that I want from life, and if it’s not tranquility then it’s the willingness to find peace within a brutal storm.
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