Remember how bad 2016 was supposed to have been? Or 2017, that one was really pretty tough for me. Well and I think 2018 too. A doozy. As we countdown towards the Official year of the Space Odyssey (google it whipper snappers), I cant help but think 2019 was a step forward. I mean it was a step in the dark and you may have hit the bed frame with your pinky toe, but you stumbled forward nonetheless. Or did you? Truth is, every year and every day is the worst one for someone. So be cognizant with that celebrating, you’d hate to rub it in.
The hating of a whole year phenomena struck me as odd a few years back when things were especially glum. I mean, applying an emotional reaction to a construct we have created seemed a little like wasted energy, but if it refocused that hate away from racial, gender or ethnic groups, then hey, “Suck it 2016”! Alas, it didn’t. Hate begets hate.
I guess what I’m saying is that the biggest side effect of negativity towards anything is just more negative energy. I’ve seen it snowball in my own life (in many different years) and it’s for sure a thing. The times that culturally we’ve all decided that all is lost seem to fulfill this exact idea.
I know it’s Friday and you didn’t expect to awake to “deep thoughts by PF,” and like most days, I’m not 100% sure why my brain goes to such things, but it does and here we are. As morose and overly serious as I may come across on one hand. On the other, I’m equally positive and upbeat (at least in my head). I am a little ray of sunshine. You’ll just have to deal with it.
This morning my message is simple. Be more happy. As one of those fancy memes said on this internet, “You’re undefeated against bad days”. I mean the criteria for a win may just be that you woke up alive and that , in and of itself is a win, but it’s a win nonetheless. You are alive, and that’s a starting point.
This weekend hug a friend. Or a stranger if you dare. Would you give a hi five to a person in the grocery store? Would you buy the coffee of the person behind you? Or drop off a blanket to that homeless person you see all of the time? Do something.
Today. Spread a smile. Be more happy. Maybe that helps someone who’s 2019 is the worst year ever.
#hugsandhi5s
