March 6, 2020 - 175 - "The Better It Gets, The Better It Gets"

 

   I heard this idea a few years ago that basically goes like this:  Every moment in life is a decision point;  a 'Y' in the road.  You can choose a little bit happier...or a little bit sadder.

    It's not a big choice in that moment.  It seems an insignificant choice...but it has huge effects.  Over time, you get to a higher and higher place-one tiny choice at a time.

    You can't go from really depressed/something horrible just happened...to ecstasy.  That option just isn't available to you in that moment...but you can maybe go from ‘really depressed/something horrible just happened’...to, well, ‘maybe life will suck less tomorrow’.

     I get asked a lot of questions about how fearful I am about X (X = The latest Horrible End-Life-On-the-Planet disease/threat/event).  My answer is usually:  Not very.

    At some point you just get tired of worrying if that powder on the counter in the lavatory is dust from the Kleenex box.  Or anthrax!

    If Swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, sars, lyme disease, west nile disease...might get you.  Or will it be someone with an automatic rifle who feels sad and disenfranchised, can't get a girlfriend, or believes his god loves him and hates you?

    Huh.  I'm kind of at a point where I think:  I will worry about layoffs when I get a pink slip.  I will worry about the latest threat when it comes knocking on my door...but for now I'll take the happy fork in the road toward:  I'm here now.  Think I'll go pet Ella, kiss Michael, text a friend, eat something sweet...or any one of a million options that are happier than thoughts of doom and gloom.

    Here's to feeling just a teeny, tiny, bit better in each moment...leading to all kinds of goodness!

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Some Wisdom from Bobby McFerrin:

"In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now"
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