So, we made it almost a fourth of the way through the year. So, time for a check in. How are you doing? Still feeling good? Think that you have gotten most of goals hit or continuing so far? I am much farther on some goals and far behind in others. I guess that is why they say success is not measured in a straight line. We have to be flexible.
That means in all areas of our lives, including our emotions.
Riley is a preteen living in Wisconsin having a ball in her life, or should I say puck? She loves her hockey team, family, friends, school, and everything really seems perfect. That is until her parents and her move to San Francisco due to her dad's job.
Now, there is something everyone needs to know, our emotion have control of our mind and they are little being that are used to influence Riley and the world around her by how she feels. They are Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness. They work together to use the appropriate emotion for what is going on.
The leader of this group, Joy, thinks that Riley needs to be happy all of the time. That whenever she is not happy that not only is she not doing her job right, but she will do everything in her life to make her happy. All of the core memories that Riley has, the stuff that makes her her, are all happy memories. However, everything that Joy knows changes when a sad core memory enters into system. Joy does everything she can to stop the memory becoming a core one, and ends up being forced out of the control room with sadness. They have to go on adventure, literally down memory lane, to get back to the control room before everything falls apart.
So, in reality, we know that our emotions are not controlled by little beings in our head. However, I do know that our emotions are things that we can and can not choose.
Sometimes and emotion comes so fast that you can't control it and we just have to feel it no matter what is happening. Other times the emotion slowly crawls on us over time and it engulfs us before we are aware that it's even happened. None of these are wrong, but we can make choices about our emotions, even if we don't want to admit it.
Why am I always so happy? Why am I always full of joy? It because I choose to be. I not 100% happy all of the time, I have my bouts with anxiety, anger, fear, and every other emotion. However, I choose to be happy. I choose to no let every little thing in the world get me down. There are so many people in the world that choose to sit in their anger, fear, and they end up playing victim. People will say that happiness doesn't last and that it's pointless to be happy as often as I am. I am aware that happiness doesn't last. I am aware that not everything is sunshine and rainbows. That being happy is not permanent. Neither is sadness. Neither is fear. Neither is anger.
No emotion lasts forever.
You can't always choose how you feel about a moment or a person. You can't always choose how to react when unexpected things happen. You can choose to be victim to an emotion to the rest of your life. That also include happiness. If you are always trying to stay happy, if you are chasing happiness only, you will fail. That failure will hurt more than just letting the emotion that you are trying to hide.
Becoming a slave to one emotion is no way to live life.
I choose to be happy whenever I can, and choose the other emotions to come when they do. They are all important and all need to be felt.
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