Joy Is The Only Answer

Have you ever noticed how when you’re having a horrific day, and you’re complaining about how so and so did you wrong, or this or that thing that happened is so upsetting, that everything else in your day goes downhill from there? I certainly have. It’s the reason I’ve recently begun a campaign to change how I view the world and my fellow humans in it. This is not to say that I never have bad days anymore, or that I’m never stressed out which would certainly be untrue, but I’ve begun to change how I react to and think about people and situations. For example, when I got sick this last weekend and felt awful during what was supposed to be a productive three day weekend (meaning I wanted to work on my current novel), instead of getting bummed out about how I wasn’t able to really work on what I wanted to because I felt like crap, I did easy lazy stuff that I enjoy like binging on shows like Paranormal Caught on Camera and Star Trek. I also continued to read a new book by a favorite author. I stayed in bed, took cold medications so the symptoms didn’t drive me crazy and just took it easy. Sure it sucked that I wasn’t able to do everything I wanted to, but… I did my best not to let it get me down. Instead I looked for the joy in the things that I did get to do even though I was sick. It was nice to just watch television and read while my body recuperated. Did I like being ill? Obviously not, but being sick allowed me some down time and gave me an opportunity to do some fun things I enjoy.

It’s easy to let every little or big irritating thing that happens ruin your day. I mean let’s face it we all do it, and I’m certainly not an exception to that rule though I’m working on it. Like when one of my freelance clients hated the video book trailer I’d created for her latest book, the one I’d spent literally hours on. My first reaction was to get really upset and start the blame game. It wasn’t my fault, it was theirs, I told myself over and over! My next reaction was to basically throw a fit like a three year old because I didn’t want to redo it. This reaction was what used to be my “default” reaction. We’ve been so conditioned to react to or think a particular way about any little thing that disrupts our world that we don’t even question it anymore. “Well of course I was ticked off when my client said she hated the video book trailer I created. I had a right to be!” And while this may have…

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