Choosy

Today was a really great day. I can't say that there was anything special about it. I got up, went to work, came home, and went to my typical hang out with my "Tuesday Night" group of friends. All in all it was a pretty standard day. I think what is making me feel good about it is that I'm starting to just be positive. For a while I was feeding into the "Oh God, it's Monday (Moanday, or Tuesday, or....)," or responding negatively about life and/or work to those that asked. And lately I've stopped that.

I'm starting to get back in touch with the idea that the day is what I make of it. If I have a grumpy or shitty attitude then that's how I'm going to feel. It's amazing how powerful the mind is in this respect. Everyday now when I go to work or I'm out walking I make a point to look for and say something positive. Just simply the act of deciding to be in a good makes it so. Isn't that odd? It makes me wonder why people are in such crappy moods all the time. I know that there are extreme situations where you may want or need to feel sadness or anger. I also know that there are times where you are I am so worn down from trying situations that deciding to be in a good mood is extremely difficult. However, most of the time it just takes a bit of a conscious effort in the morning, or whenever, and then everything flows. Perhaps it's where the euphemism of waking up on the wrong side of the bed comes from.

Figuring this out seems simple enough and yet I've learned the lesson before and apparently forgotten it. I used to tell people how I would act happy and excited with my students in the morning because they would reflect the mood back to me. It was an amazing thing to see and validated how contagious mood can be. I also know that I understood this concept of making my own reality around that time when I would recite my mantra, Life is Good.

However, I think that I've been trained to believe that my mood is imparted on me from the world. I wonder how many people in our society believe that our mood is a reaction to how the world is treating us. I don't think that is true, though as I said that I had forgotten this. I can interpret today in an entirely different way if I want to. I'm sure there were several small things that happened that I could have become angry about or fixated on to be grumpy. I could have been depressed about being single while hanging out with couples at my friends tonight. There are many emotional paths I could have gone on today alone; yet why would I want to when I can simply be high on life and happy.

So tomorrow again I will say good morning and smile. I will choose to be happy to be at work and get to chat with some amazing people. I will choose to appreciate life.