Letting yourself bend helps keep you from breaking, keeps you feeling scrappy,
Sometimes the taste of something bitter can make other things seem sweet,
So, rather than fighting every downturn, you could embrace being Woefully Happy,
And prove to yourself that feeling all your feelings needn't hurt, but makes you complete.
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Ep. 449 - Woefully Happy
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
While I don’t claim to have diagnosable sorrow, I still, from time to time, get sad,
I get tired, overwhelmed, I feel defeated, and wonder when glad times will return,
It’s usually short-lived because I aim for balance and growth even when things get bad,
But sometimes I just want to take a nap and let sleep relieve me of any and all concern.
I treat it like catching a cold because while it may not seem like it at the time,
I know that it will eventually pass and I’ll be okay again, even if I do feel like crap,
Life has a way of keeping things moving, each day there’s a new hill to climb,
Or a new waterslide to race down, a new adventure, challenge, joy, hardship or mishap.
I’ve also had my fair share of deep grief, where I was inconsolable and weepy,
Where everything set me off and I started to develop a phobia against woe,
At those times I didn’t think that anything would fix it, I was beyond sleepy,
I was exhausted and it felt like the world wanted me to give in to the undertow.
But I stuck it out because I always wanted to see what would happen next,
Was it the point just before the big windfall, or was it the end of the road?
Was I about to have all my wishes fulfilled, or was I about to get hexed?
Also I never wanted to give my haters the satisfaction of watching me implode.
So, letting myself bend helped keep me from breaking, kept me feeling scrappy,
Sometimes the taste of something bitter can make other things seem sweet,
So, rather than fighting every downturn, I could embrace being Woefully Happy,
And prove to myself that feeling all my feelings didn’t hurt, but made me complete.
Haha
Yowza
