Recently I have been contemplating removing myself from all social media. It seems that fear mongering and seeking out things to complain about and sharing them are becoming the norm. So much so that I dreamed about it the other day and when negative attitudes and constant complaining start filtering in to your dreams, you may want to rethink things. I didn't even want to address it for fear of falling into the same negative compliant fueled diatribe myself. But then I decided to get up and go watch the sunrise this morning. Sunrises are amazing to me. The beginning of a brand new day. Mother nature has cleaned the slate and hit reset so that we can enjoy the day anew. I take pleasure watching the world come alive. Mornings in general just set me in the right direction. I listen better, focus my thoughts and have time to clean out the clutter to enjoy the moment. But how can we carry that enjoyment of life and happiness throughout the day. With 24 hour news perpetuating doom and gloom, reality TV introducing more and more drama into our lives, and social media wrecking havic on us with naysayers spewing hatred and others constantly complaining about the other sides opinion (and those are our friends and family). How do you carry that wonderful feeling of happiness and love into the rest of your life, work and family? How do you block out the dark and continue to introduce light? How can I be a better version of me and help bring a smile and genuine happiness to those I come in contact with? I legitimately do not have the answer but I believe it lies within our own perspective and attitude. Allowing ourselves to be open to the idea that essentially most people have more potential for good than bad and and many of them are really just trying to do the right thing. Embrace that view and reflect it back. Seek the good and through our attitude reflect it back out into the world. It seems so easy for people to lean toward negative and reflect that back with a magnitude of even more negative that I truly fear for the direction it is leading us as a society. It drives a very noticeable division between our different cultures. Without embracing our differences and and finding wonder in the things that make us unique we do not allow ourselves to learn. To become defiantly close minded to others opinions and seek out crap to spew in an attempt to somehow fight for your position is utterly irresponsible. I was discussing this with my daughter and the best analogy I could think of was like finding a pile of dog poop in the yard and instead of cleaning it up before someone stepped in it or even possibly walking around it and going on with your day people seem to be seeking it out, stepping in it on purpose, dragging it into the house with their shoe and then complaining that there is dog shit on the carpet. But now I feel as if I am falling back into the cycle.
I can only try to take in life with the wonderment of a child and cast it back out into the the world with the wisdom of many of the teachers before me and hope that my perspective stays focused on good and my attitude helps perpetuate happiness with those I surround myself with. Clean the slate, enjoy the peace, embrace those around you with love and for god sake stay away from the piles of poop.
Until next time.......
