Happy Monday my fellow warriors of happiness. Against all that is negative, I hope that the
start of your week is off to a grand start. Again it is a late night in Indiana
and I am just now sitting down to my laptop to write today’s blog. I hadn’t
really decided what I was going to write and I try not to write when I am upset,
but about an hour ago one of my “Emotional Siphoner’s” rolled on up on the
informational superhighway and started throwing “negativity bombs” my way. As I
cruised the net trying to relax and gather myself, I came across this quote, "Don't
allow negative people to trap you in with their negative useless thoughts, be
strong and break free," author unknown.
As I read that quote, it jump started something inside of me
that I preach all the time and just like my dad would always do I said, “self
you only have two choices here.” He was big on the “I said self” and then he
finished his story. Sorry that is for another time, but thinking of my dad does
make me smile. Thinking of him makes me happy and helps refuel my “Happiness
Tank,” which is giving me the energy to write this blog, so I guess it kind of
fits here. In one paragraph in real time, you my fans just witnessed the power
of the happy thought as reference to the filling of the “Happiness Tank.”
Okay back to it. By no means am I the first to say this and
I won’t be the last, but in every situation you always have at least two
options. As I was being bombarded with these “negativity bombs,” I thought to
myself this is the night that Mr. Happiness Guru loads his “negativity bombs”
and fires back. Before I could get cocked and loaded that quote popped up. In
that moment, I realized that I had the choice to walk away or engage him. If I
fire back, I allow him to take the power of the situation away from me, because
until that moment I still hold the power of the choice. Once I give it to him,
I have allowed a negative person to trap me with useless words. Like my dad
always said ‘stoop to their level and you become them and that is what
miserable people want to make, more miserable people.”
By not engaging this person, I didn’t allow him the power
over the situation. I exercised my right to the “block this person” button and
I broke free of that situation. In that one action, I retained the status of
Mr. Happiness Guru and I didn’t allow him the power to steal that title away from
me. It has taken me many years to get here.
I am not perfect. I am ever
growing, ever changing, and ever evolving into the person I want to be. I will
fall short many times on my own; therefore, I can’t afford to give my “Emotional
Siphoner’s” the option to take my knees out from under me. In Robin Hood theMovie, 2010, Russel Crow’s character Robin Longstride states "Rise And
Rise Again Until Lambs Become Lions” when asked by Little John (Kevin Durand)
and Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes) what this saying meant, he replies “never give
up. Though I will fall, I can’t allow
myself to be trapped by negative people and I can’t give up. I have to rise
above the negativity in my life even when it pours down upon me.
When the negativity comes down so fast that it looks to
flood my life, I have to remember I must swim for all I am worth and rise above
the negative tide!!!
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