Wednesday, November 28, 2007

How Do You Define Happy?

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. What a crappy way to live.

I'm happy at the moment. My career isn't changing, but my company is busy and I have plenty of things to do at work. My kids are having their daily challenges, but I'm able to really see what great people they are turning into, with good values, quick brains, and open hearts. My home is a mess, but it's being appraised this afternoon, which is the last step (I believe) before it is refinanced in my name only, and truly becomes *my* house. My personal life is going well, with a man that I truly care for, even though we hit our rocky patches occassionally. (How can you not when one of you is fighting for custody and the other is going through a divorce?)

In writing this down, I've realized that I'm not being my usual overly Pollyanna self, that I'm seeing things realistically, but am still waiting. I'm waiting for my job to bore me again, my kids to get bratty, my home to need expensive repair, my personal life to fall apart, and my ex-husband to decide to fight me on the terms of our divorce.

Does anyone have the abilities to really live in the moment? To look around and say, "Yep - this is all I need" without looking for the pitfalls ahead? Can that be bottled?

5 comments:

alienbody said...

Nope, people just write books about living in the moment, they don't actually do it. There is no such thing as strictly living for now. You have to balance the 'here and now' with the 'what if' of the future and just be prepared, physically and mentally for whatever comes along. Ahh...if life were a piece of cake, then....I'd be even fatter!!

Chickenbells said...

I don't think that you can live in the moment all of the time...but when you can slow down and look around for a minute, practice appreciation and gratitude...and ask the question, how do I live in the moment? THEN you live in the moment...

but, only for a moment.

And that's OK too...I think as we all get "older" and wiser, we realize that life isn't static, and it's not designed to be that way, cause' you'd get all bored and create problems so that you would feel like you were doing something. It's hard not to look ahead with fear...and wait for that shoe to drop...I do it, and so do other people...so I guess we're normal...and the bad gives us a ruler in which to measure the good...(end sermon)

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