I won't give you my joy....
Last week I wrote about not letting anyone steal my joy. Later, I realized no one can steal my joy, but I sure can give it to them! I refuse to give my joy away, especially to people who don’t give a hoot about me in the first place.
How do I give my joy away?
The first way is through worrying about outcomes. Right now everything is so messed up on such a huge scale, it’s easy to wake up and go to sleep worrying. Join me in refusing to do that. Yes, it looks like some pretty awful things might be coming down the pike, but some of the things we imagine won’t happen and the ones that do happen don’t have to land on our doorstep and, if they do, we’ll know how to handle them when they come. So how does worrying help any of this? Not at all.
The second way I can give away my joy is allowing myself to listen to and believe naysayers and there are plenty of them out and about right now. If we find ourselves in a situation that is steeped in negativity, we have the right to leave. Even if you have to use the bathroom excuse, get yourself to a different environment as soon as you can. Then take a few minutes to breathe some deep breaths, get centered, fill yourself with light, and move along as best you can.
I mentioned this third way last week. Keep doing as many things that make you feel good as possible. It’s really difficult to give away your joy when you feel good. Wayne Dyer used to talk about a message he left on his phone. It said. “If the message you’re leaving me will make me feel good, go ahead and leave it. If it won’t make me feel good, please hang up.” That always made me chuckle because I could imagine the face of a phone solicitor getting that message, frowning, and hanging up.
As long as I have been on planet Earth, some days and hours are great while others just plain suck. Even when I’m at my best, that’s no guarantee I won’t be tempted with some yucky feelings from time to time. I’m sure the same is true for you. In any of these situations, I always have the choice of handing over my joy or keeping it. Most of the time I choose to keep it and I invite you to do the same thing.
No one can steal our joy as long as we don’t give it to them. Have a great week! Krysta
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Here's something I ran across seemingly by accident: According to the Nation, Trump did NOT win a majority of the popular vote for President. His popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.
Trump’s popular-vote advantage has declined steadily since election night. As of Monday afternoon, Trump was at 49.94 percent, while Harris was at 48.26, according to the authoritative Cook Political Report’s tracking of results from official sources in states across the country. And we can expect that the Republican’s total will only continue to tick downward as heavily Democratic states on the West Coast finalize their vote tallies.
We need our joy wherever we can create it.
That's a great post, as usual. I thought about it and I composed a poem to declare that I'm not going to give away my joy either. Here it is: "I pledge no allegiance to the flag of the MAGA states for which it stands. In a country divided there's neither liberty nor justice. I take a knee during the National Anthem, but I prefer not to hear it at all."