Feel it

There are people who want to be happy and there are people who don’t. Why do we try so hard to make people fit in the box we are in at the time. We do it with religion, we do it moods etc. So many times we are feeling really good and on top of the world and someone comes into our experience who is not feeling so good. We look at them and call them depressing, we tell them to buck up and find something to feel good about, to feel grateful for or to appreciate and most times we can’t help them. They cannot get to where we are in the few moments we are together and talking to them.

Why do we feel the need to have everyone line up and be in the same place at the same time?

Personally I am glad we aren’t all in the same place at the same time or life would be rather boring. Really!

We cannot appreciate the sunlight when we have no rain, and we cannot appreciate the rain when we have sun all day long. Isn’t it magnificent to watch a sunrise? and then a sunset?

You never see people look at the sun and say “why do you leave us in the dark?” You simply know there is something to appreciate at night, the moon the stars and the fact our bodies are conditioned to rest better in the dark than in the light, etc.

If you aren’t sometimes feeling depressed you cannot appreciate how good it feels to be happy.

If you have never been hungry how can you appreciate food?

There is an opposite to every single thing. Everything.

People will not be depressed forever, and they won’t be happy every single moment of the day. If we could somehow take away the judgement and say to them or simply ourselves

‘okay this is where you are right now and I know you won’t be here forever - I’m sure there is something you are learning from this or you wouldn’t be here’

you would likely see the resistance fall off of them. No one WANTS to feel bad, but if we don’t allow them - and ourselves- the opportunity to feel the bad sometimes we cannot ever really feel the good times. And they are such GOOD times!!