I want to let you all in on a secret. It’ll improve the
quality of your existence, help you make better choices and go farther in life...be
it professionally or your personal relationships.
If you’ve been reading Buckaroo Barbie for very long, you’ll
have heard me talking about joy at some point. There is a big difference
between joy and happiness. Joy is a choice. Happiness is a feeling that floats
in and out of your life at will. Happiness is something that happens TO YOU. Joy
is something YOU CREATE.
Everything that happens in life presents you with a choice:
to be knocked down and allow negativity to set in at the things that happen TO
you, or deciding to not allow life to affect your joy no matter what occurs. You
don’t get to choose what comes into your life and the experiences you go
through, you only get to choose how you will react to them. That right there is
power, my friends.
I’ve tried going through life both ways; allowing things to
happen to me, or making a conscious decision to chose joy every day and learn
from what I’m going through at that particular moment.
Life is a heck of a lot better when you chose joy. It’s not
easy, I don’t think most things in life are,
but it is totally worth it.
Happiness is a bubbly feeling, a surface emotion. We
experience happiness when life goes our way, and we lose our happiness when the
world raises its ugly head and life happens. I have been forced, because of my
health, to not participate in MOST of the outdoor activities that I love the
last 5 years, but I have to say that these past 5 years have been some of the
most joyful of my entire life.
Why? Surely not
because I love lying in bed all day. No, I hate it actually.
I’m not a masochist, I really don’t like being in pain all
the time either.
It makes me all kinds of uncomfortable to have to ask other
people to help me, I think my first words as a child were, “I can do it
MYSELF!”
It’s quite simple really.
Every day when I wake up I decide to have joy in my life.
And then I do.
Don’t get me wrong, I feel sadness, emptiness, loneliness, hurt
and betrayal just like everyone else.
But through those times, most of the time, I still have that
joy because it’s a choice I’m making, not a feeling.
Life is beautiful, exciting and an adventure.
It’s also painful, difficult and overwhelming.
Make a change in your life and decide to chose joy; your
whole life will change.
xo xo Liz
Thank you so much for posting this. you friend are so raw and open and all together beautiful.
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