Keep Happiness Simple

With everything going on around us in this world, especially lately. I feel we are losing touch with simple happiness. Every day we wake up to the weight of the world and to our individual life weighing down upon us and we end up losing sight simple happiness. If some thing does not go right or plans get altered or circumstances delay our daily activities we end up letting it dominate our day and lives in a negative fashion. Guess what everyone, sh-t is going to happen and there is nothing we can do to stop it. The only power we have over it is how we will react and handle it. Are we going to adapt and move on with a strong positive attitude or will we let the bad feelings dominate are day and cause us to give off a negative attitude to everyone around us and make them miserable as well. I was listening to a pod cast this week and part of the story was about a airport delay and how this person was more concerned about the people expressing their anger towards the airline and possibly causing the technicians to fix the issue with the jet faster then they should and a little less thoroughly then the should in order to quell the anger of the passengers. His attitude was, please take your time and fix this right because I have to go 36,000 feet up into the air in this thing and I would like to get to my destination safely to see my family. Most of us do not react this way, including myself.  We forget that Sh-t is going to happen and all logical reason goes out the door. Life and the world our tough enough on there own, why add more to it with a negative response. Instead trying to figure out what positive can come out of a situation and what you can do productively and learn from it and make it a teachable moment for ourselves and those around us. Just some food for thought as we end our work week and head into what is hopefully a restful and fun weekend.