Saturday, April 27

afternoon practice is over.

for some reason i was reminded of a chat i had with someone, someone who was sweet, but always had a scowl on his/her face. i asked him/her, why are you always frowning? (s)he gave some answer how there was no particular reason to smile, while there seemed to be lots to frown.

a revelation from several years ago came to mind..

at any given moment, you have the option to be happy or upset. (oooooohhh. deep, huh?)

retard, you say, that's so obvious. maybe it is, maybe it is. but it wasn't to me. and when i began to see that a lot of times, i was reacting to my environment in anger, sadness, or just generally being upset, i took the option to be happy instead. not so easy, but it becomes easier, the more you do it. of course, this doesn't mean to delude yourself. it just means to take the other option, because these small things that happen to you daily don't require you to be angry. for that matter, if you really think about it, there is hardly anything that deserves to make you truly angry and upset.

a friend of mine at school once told me, "dude, you're always smiling (can you guess that he is also from CA? haha). i've never seen anyone smile and laugh as hard as you." i haven't really noticed that my smiles or laughs are more frequent or of a greater magnitude than others, but i guess i do smile alot. because i'm happy a lot. i have a lot of things to be happy about.


yakob at 5:01 PM

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