Silliness

     We are in control of our own emotions. It isn’t easy to learn to step back and observe the body and its reaction to the world around us, but once the understanding happens it is then that dealing with emotions becomes easier. Everything is a learning process.

     Different incidents or moments may happen throughout a day, but we get to determine how we handle them. For instance, my wife had a friendship that ended a few years back because her friend was terribly jealous of my wife’s skills and success in life. My wife has worked very hard, she is very personable, and she puts her nose to the grindstone. At the time that the friendship ended my wife and I were confused as to why, but a little while later my wife was promoted to a supervisory position and that was when the real nastiness came out of her once friend. Ever since, the presence of my wife can knock the smile off of her face. My wife continues on with life and doesn’t have a second thought about her old friend. She is in control of how she feels and has long ago chosen to move on with life, while her old friend is miserable and hasn’t let things go, even to this day.

     Why people would choose to live this way is beyond me. Once learning that I could decide how to react to a situation my life has continuously improved. I’ve learned a lot from 1Yogi2many and understand that the intellect is very different from who we think we are. I’ve had dysthymia for at least half my life, there is little effect from it anymore. I don’t want to be who I was. We don’t have to be what we remember of our past, it is better just to be, the happiness follows automatically.