Reflect

Keep your eyes open - Joy lives in small places!

It seems to me that some of the most beautiful and exciting things are all around us. I have experienced the desire for more and better -and I think those emotions, those driving focuses are necessary in the execution of one's life. However, I am starting to believe more than ever that you don't need to look beyond yourself in order to really enjoy life. Finding the beauty, the joy, the LIFE in life is all a matter of opinion, vision, and attitude. Someone who is happy sees happiness around them - it seems to shooot out of their eyes and if you happen to lock eyes with them one of two things happens. You either absorb that sunshine or you reflect it. This depends entirely on your attitude! If you're in a terrible mood and someone in a great mood comes anywhere near you they may amplify your misery. In relation to someone with stars or hearts or clouds in their eyes, your misery looks like a giant black rock. Lifeless. Hard. Impenetrable.

If we LOOK for the good, we find it. Unfortunately, we also usually find a smattering of bad, cruel, evil, and/or miserable. In the face of these shady places we can still find light but we must REALLY want to find it.

Sometimes finding happiness or light - the sunshine is hard and improbable.. near impossible. Perhaps we set ourselves up for failure... what I think is so very important in life is simply to find SOMETHING in EVERYTHING that moves you forward. Whether that be something that makes you feel wonderful or makes you feel the worst you've ever felt in your life - the trick to life is to FEEL it. If you can find a way to process everything that comes at you with humility and a sense of wonder then everything is about the experience, the sensation, the intrigue of a new and invigorating life enhancing moment. Nothing can bring you down if you don't let it.

Love,

M