So, there’s an elephant in the room. There has been for a while. I both want to talk about it and don’t, because there are other people more qualified, who do that much better than me, but I figure I might as well share a few thoughts.
We are in a very scary, sad and infuriating time. Very. And I am scared, and sad, and frustrated and enraged and feel overwhelmed…and I’m also happy.
I’m sure that’s a full-on WTF for many. Please, hear me out.
Let’s go back to 2016. I had people I actually loved look at me and say, “How bad could it be?” Most of those people aren’t in my life anymore. I knew how bad it could be. You probably did to. And, here we are. Worse than I dared myself to imagine. And we’re only six months in this time.
When people ask how I became a Happyist, I explain that I was in a very bad mood from 2016-2022, and at the end of 2022, I knew I could not go on with that frame of mind, and that level of unhappiness any longer. Something had to change.
And what I was feeling was an internal angst, more than anything. And it was awful. Just awful. You wouldn’t necessarily know how I was feeling from looking at me or interacting with me. Gallows humor served to cover a lot of it up. But it was there, and it was eating away at me slowly, in big bites. xo
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