Random Thoughts

OK. I'm not going to say who because I don't want to call anyone out but the other night I was watching a show on the History Channel about Ancient Greece and the Greek Mythologies with a friend. Regarding their ancient religious beliefs, she commented and said "isn't it just amazing what they believed back then (as truth).?" She was implying how wrong and misguided they were to which I replied "hello, fast forward to a hundred or a thousand years from now and that is what people will be saying about the religions of today." Some of us already are saying that about the religions of today. :-)


I have had a few conversations lately with friends whom I have known for a few years only to find out a great misconception they have of me. This happened on two or three occasions with different friends. I mentioned that I was experiencing a down time and feeling a little depressed in general and they were shocked that I could experience such moments. This in turn shocked me that they thought I never entered this state. While I am glad that they perceive me as a happy, cheerful, positive, and outgoing person, I realized that they did not have a realistic perception of me. The reality is that I am not always happy and positive. I have my moments of frustration, doubt, worry, and feeling blue just like everyone else. My family and childhood friends can attest to this. I just choose not to stay in that place for too long. Let me tell you, happy, cheerful, positive people aren't that way all the time. They just understand that those states are temporary and that this too shall pass. They don't let the bad stuff hold them down for too long. They know to allow the process of the experience whether it is anger, frustration, sadness, stress, etc. to flow through them so that they can process, evaluate, and release the emotions in order to heal and move on. The quicker you face what you are feeling the sooner you can let it go. So it is best not to suppress or sit on your feelings for too long or to be in denial of them because this is what leads to depression. The longer you wait to face and release your negative emotions is just time wasted that you could have already let them go and moved on to the positive. This is what happy people know, they know to find the positive side of it and then let it go and keep moving forward.




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