Choosing
I was talking to Alan not too long ago about choosing to be happy. As we were driving the other day there was a radio program with a guy talking about choosing to be happy and that it wasn't unreasonable to be at an 8 or 9 all the time on a 1 - 10 "happy scale". I told him that most of the time I am at a 9.997. And then I said "I guess you have to be just a bit on the mentally challenged side" to be like that all the time - HA!! My personal situation is that I choose to ignore the bad or hard things, not good all the time, but there you go.Any way, when I am at the end of an 8 day stretch at work, which I just finished up, it is very difficult to keep that good outlook. I see things at home piling up, I feel disconnected from my family, there isn't enough money, I have gained WAY too much weight, and I feel totally out of control of things. In case you don't know I am a perfectionist, I am very black and white, and have a very strong urge to be TOTALLY in control at all times, and it is very important that things go how I think they should go. So, when people at work are ignorant acting, or a guest at work is mean just because, or my tummy giggles too much, I don't care to have that going on.
It is very safe to say that I like to garden so much because I can control it a lot, they don't argue back, and in general do what I say!! Sad, I know but I have gotten better over the years and it only comes out on "bad" days. I thought that since it has been so long since I have blogged, not that many people read my stuff, I thought I would just put up what I have been recently experiencing.
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