I signed up for the site, 'The First 30 Days' which sends emails to you once a day on various subjects for, you guessed it, 30 days. I chose "Being Happier." My day six email was about fighting fear. It went on to say how you shouldn't feel fear about trying new things in order to be happier. My initial response was, "why would I be afraid of being happy? Happiness is a good thing - a good feeling, who wouldn't want to live a happier life?" Then, I put more thought into it. So many of us go throughout life with such negative attitudes, we look at the bad more than the good. And how can we not? The bad is all around us, just turn on the TV, pick up the newspaper or a magazine and you will see shootings, a down economy, people losing their homes, people telling you to lose weight, scams to watch out for, the list goes on and on. The news doesn't often report on good things happening around our world, and why would they? Unfortunately, tragedy sells. Why, because we buy it. Are we as humans putting ourselves up for failure to be happier? We have a tendency to focus on the negative things that could happen from change, rather than the positives. Change is hard, therefore getting to a happier place takes more work. Staying in a negative state is far less challenging because it is familiar. Or is it harder? I have negative people in my life, and when I finish with a phone call from one of them, I am actually emotionally drained. I always think, it must take so much effort to be so negative about life. Or does it not, because it is so familiar?
As for me, I am up for the hard work in finding serenity. After all, life is too short to be afraid of a challenge.
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