2 posts tagged “happiness”

When things are tough, we all hear to keep our chins up and look on the bright side of things. Well, I try to remain positive and do try to look on the bright side, but some days, the worst gets the best of me and I'm say, "You all get in my shoes during this time of worry for me and try to stay on the bright side and positive!" It's hard! When you've been a house husband for a few years, and your comfortable and settled (so you think) and then you get the big news that I got (which was horrible - one, almost cost me my partner's life - two, and subsequently will most likely, unless I can do something to make money in the next two weeks or so, will quite possibly cause me to lose my home, it's just not as easy to look on the bright side. I still smile and try to stay focused, but I really want to just have a miracle happen, and time go backward and this even never to have occurred, but I know that won't happen. I'm a realist. And it gets even more real every day.

So, chin up everyone and remember that things can be a lot worse!

JD

You know, I'm a lucky...lucky...LUCKY man! I get to wake up each morning with Keith. I get to spend my morning waking to Keith giving me a goodbye kiss and the great day starters, like "Have a great day.", and "I love you.". I get to wake to the beautiful sunrises, like this morning's, out our bedroom window.

I get wash dishes while coffee is brewing. I get to make a strong coffee with half cup milk and a teaspoon of sugar. I get to snuggle with my pup Penny on the sofa. I get to turn on the telly and sit down with Discovery Channel's Sunrise Earth (as if my own sunrise wasn't nice enough), I get to read the good news from online friends/neighbors and I get to write about it and share what I experience with the world.

I sit here this morning and I'm, quite obviously, being gracious and thinking about what I have in my life to be thankful for and as you have read above, I have much. It may not seem it to some folks, but for me, my simple life, isn't so simple. I struggled many a day to find something to be happy about a while back. I went through a relationship where I loved someone enough to allow them to emotionally cripple me with abuse and it took about two years to get over, but I did it and I did it with the love from my partner, Keith. I came through and to this day, I can say, I'm VERY thankful I am able to forgive Until I could forgive that person, I could not move forward. It was the second most difficult thing I'd ever do in my life so far. The first was forgiving my parents. That took about 15 years.

So, today, I have this life, where I don't need much and have everything I need, plus a few extra bonus things to make our lives a bit more comfortable, but we live simply and within our means. We live on cash so we don't have, nor do we need crazy credit, we only have a mild amount of debt compared to some folks, and we get to spend our days like this together.

It does get better as you get older, too. Well, I can only speak for myself, but I hope that in sharing, folks find inspiration in my outlook and from my experiences. That is, truly, all I wish from writing all this for the world to see. I may be considered a romantic, but ask Keith, he'll tell you I'm not. But I do find myself at peace with where I am and with who I am and that wasn't always the case. I thank God for that. I could be a bitter, jaded, and hateful person from my experiences, but I chose not to be. I've known folks like that and they are not pleasant to be around.

My wish for you all today, is that you wake up, can take a deep breath, see things in a positive light, and take in the little things and not take them for granted. Don't let life get in your way of life. Peace to you all on this day and every day.

With Love,

Derek aka JD