have you ever found yourself in a funk for no apparent reason? i have not been a happy camper the past week. i couldn't put my finger on it but i felt off. uneasy. overwhelmed with decisions and occasionally b*tchy.
the last straw was the classy reject email from costco. it's a shame-- i was really looking forward to free samples every day but alas, it's not in the cards. honestly it came down to availability. i looked smokin' in my three interviews, i was charming and intelligent, but my availability wasn't wide open.
i shed a few tears. would i be a girl if i didn't? and it wasn't that i was heartbroken about not working at costco-- it was that my {seemingly only} chance for change slipped through my fingers. mr. k took me to dinner and gave me a good boyfriend pep-talk: "you're awesome! they're stupid!" type of thing. it cheered me up.
sitting at dinner with mr. k he asked what i was thinking.
"about happiness" i replied.
happiness is a funny thing. while i was busy being absorbed in grumpiness for a week happiness was lollygagging elsewhere. some life lessons you forget until your brain reprimands you for being stupid. i clearly needed an attitude adjustment. what's that song from the 90's? "don't worry, be happy". happiness is a choice-- it's all about how you react, not what happens to you.
check out this quote but benjamin franklin. what a stud:
"the u.s. constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. you have to catch up with it yourself"
also
"happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude" -denis waitley-
today i'm choosing to be happy because it's a heck of a lot better than being grumpy.
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