Survival

November 18, 2021

Survival. Survival is a good idea if you are going to keep living. You have to survive in order to live. We all know that to be true. When you are in survival mode, all your energy is being used to breathe. Sometimes things are so difficult you can’t even see the the sky through the water as you are drowning. This situation happens occasionally. In this very large world, it is possible that someone somewhere is going through something right now. Perhaps that is why you can watch the news 24/7. It is why the news is almost always bad. There is always some catastrophe happening somewhere. I used to watch the news, but now I don’t watch it. Too much gloom and doom is not a good thing. The point I am trying t o make here is it is not always easy to be happy, and sometimes it is virtually impossible to be, if your world is falling apart. I get that. Let the tears come. As long as you are surviving, and still breathing the misery you are experiencing in the short run will end. It is possible the moment of misery will change your life, but the thing causing the misery will end at some point. Then you have the ability to again look for or to find your happiness. When I am talking about happiness, I am not trivializing your situation. If you are experiencing great difficulty, get help. If you not able to function, or your world is falling apart, get help. When I am talking about happiness, I am talking about all the days that are not putting you in a place of extreme difficulty, danger or overwhelming sadness. Get help when you are having really bad days. With most people life is not a continual disaster. There is time to be sad, but let me remind you there is time to be happy too. If you had a pie chart dividing the days of your life, the great majority of your days should be happy. Happiness is a choice on those days. Those are the days you have no reason to grumble. Those are the days to remember appreciation and gratitude. It is like when you have a toddler and you have to take him to the doctor. The doctor gives the little guy a shot and that child screams. Boy does he scream. The doctor told me, when I went through that situation , you could tell the intelligence of a child . by how long he cried after the shot was over. How long does it take us to stop crying when nothing is threatening us any more? How long does it take us to be happy when the tears have dried up? Happiness is a choice we can make on the good days if we choose to. Celebrate survival. Celebrate every new day. Every new day gives us another chance to be happy, because sadness is, and must be temporary. When you are not sad appreciate the happiness. Survival…another necessity of happiness.

Granny-o