Growing like a Flower

Thank you all SO much for your love and support after reading my post yesterday. It means a lot to know that my readers are cheering me on in my quest for “happiness.” I know that this isn’t going to be easy, and I am sure you’ll be reading about some of my failures, but knowing that people “care” means the world to me!

I have to clear up a couple of things though – First of all, I LOVE MY HUSBAND, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS MORE THAN WORDS COULD DESCRIBE. I am so so so lucky to have the most incredible circle of people in my life that it is sometimes unbelievable that I have that many people who love me back. And I am happy about that – and they make me happy. They are not the reason for my unhappiness. 

Second, I am very grateful to be so fortunate to have my health, home, and a job. I don’t want my post to mislead any of my readers into thinking that I was crying about being unhappy about my job when there are plenty of people who would stampede over me and Mcmuffin to take it from me. It was more than that – it is more than that. I am merely unhappy with the person that I had become and I now want to change. It is about time that Mrs. Bear stops her whining and grows up!

William Butler Yeats writes, “Happiness is neither virtue, nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” 

Oh and I can’t forget my personal goals – they are going to help me grow. Like a pretty flower….or many pretty flowers.

SO….I am sure you are wondering how my day went??? The best way to sum it up is with a SMILE. It was great! I felt awesome because I tried my best to avoid a lot of negativity around me.

A few people kept asking me why I was smiling so much at our first day back at school. “What’s wrong with me smiling?” I wondered. “Perhaps they aren’t used to me smiling…” Then it dawned on me. Apparently others noticed my sourpuss face last year. For the record, a lot of people are pretty unhappy on their first day back at school, which is understandable because summer vacation is over and the start of a new year is super stressful. 

I realized yesterday though…to be happy, I am going to need to start ignoring the unhappy people around me. I must stop allowing others to affect me so much. It’s time for me to be selfish. I have always been someone who lets others ruin their day and I’ll just have to start speaking the words of someone who is very close to me: “You will NOT ruin my day” whenever the Debbie Downers come strolling around.

Well, I am sure you have heard enough for now! It’s Thursday! 2 more days left until this weekend! That also means I have four days left until I meet my third year of new students. And I have four days to finish making my list of goals for my happiness project, and to maybe recruit some of you to do the same! 

If you are interested in hearing more in depth about what I am doing to find my inner sunshine – email me!