East Grove Blues

There are many ways to act in this world, and how you act and react to situations will make your life either a living hell or a heaven on earth. I have found that the more accepting you are, the more you can forgive and the better you can laugh at situations then the more pleasant life becomes. Instead of worrying about something I have no control over I just let it go. When I get crowded into a bush taxi and have to wait in what feels like an oven I just laugh it off as a memorable experience. Instead of getting mad, and taking my anger out on others, I brush it off. It makes life so much more fun.

Now, it is not always easy to brush something off. I get mad at times, and it is healthy to do so. Emotions just don’t go away, and I have my bad days and even weeks. It happens, but those are moments when I can reflect on just what makes me angry and try to rise above it. I have this idea, and it works for me, but I am not sure for others. We all have emotions, and to suppress them is bad. They only resurface later and with more power. We can not run from them, because they will catch up with us in the end. We have to face them, experience them and understand them. When you can do that, than you can rise above the emotion.

I see myself being angry, I feel angry, but it no longer bothers me, it is there, it will go away. I understand why it is there, and I now know how I can avoid a situation like it in the future. Naturally the emotion leaves, no one was offended, I did not make the situation worse by taking out my frustrations on others, and hopefully I learned something about myself and others.

A lot of the time I am happy because I choose to be. I choose to not let things bother me, and I choose to see the good things in all people. We have a choice, to make our attitudes, to make our lives and the lives of others better. It is not something that just happens. You don’t sit down one day and have a revelation. You must work at it, and trust me it is not always easy, but at the end of the day I can feel good about how I treated others.