WRITEON FOR SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 sister alies. Hope you voted yesterday. There is so much going on my head spins! The passing of Justice Ginsberg closes another door on a certain era. Debate coming up. Who will watch and learn something new about the candidate they don’t want? Anyway, there seems to be a lot of unhappiness around and I found this list and perhaps it will help you to choose the road to happiness instead: “PRESCRIPTION FOR UNHAPPINESS (anonymous) 1. Make little things bother you 2. Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost 3. Get yourself a good worry—one you can’t do anything about 4. Be a perfectionist: condemn yourself and others for not achieving 5. Be right, always right, perfectly right at all times. 6. Don’t trust or believe in people, or accept them at their weakest. Be suspicious 7. Always compare yourself unfavorably to others 8. Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder, everything that happens to you 9. Don’t give yourself wholeheartedly to anyone or anything 10.Make happiness the aim of your life instead of bracing for life’s barbs through a ‘bitter with the sweet’ philosophy USE THIS PRESCRIPTION REGULARLY for awhile and you will be guaranteed UNhappiness!”(Illustrations Unlimited, Hewett, Ed., 1988) On the other hand, this might taste better: Victor Hugo remarked, “The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.” I suspect that in these times of anguish and loss we might feel, well moldy. Some of that’s grief, even if you haven’t lost a loved one. We are grieving the changing of season, times, politics, religious fervor/liberties, challenges to our ‘way of life’ (who is that for actually?) and so on. Maybe this week we can be reminded that the road to happiness is always under construction. Keep building! Continue to discover how much you are loved. BLESSINGS.
