I have lots of mood swings. Everyone will agree on this one, right?
Yeah. Anyway
So. I think that part of the reason I have so many mood swings is because I am continually striving to be happy. There are frequently reasons to be irritated or sad or upset, and I work really hard at not staying in those emotions. So it seems like I go in and out of them often. Other people often/usually carry these feelings for much longer periods than I do.
So really–my mood swings are more a symptom of me trying to be happy than of negative stuff. Given that I am going to try and have this perspective on it, I guess my next goal is to try and not let the icki things whack me quite so hard. You can never get rid of bad things or feelings, but I do try to not wallow in them. 🙂
My dad made an interesting point the other day, Happy was not a word used much in his house, nor to his remembering in the “Jewish” neighborhood he grew up in. Content sure, healthy definitly, but not happy. It just wasn’t something folks strived for, and you know what, I think they were happier in general because they didn’t have the expectation that they SHOULD be happy.