Two women walked by me today and one was comforting the other saying, “Happiness is not the absence of problems. You’ll work it out.” The first thought that came to my mind was Happiness is a Warm Gun. Odd right? I didn’t even know where that line came from so I set off to google and found out, I should have known this, it was a Beatles song. But I think my reaction was more about all the platitudes that have been invading my mind space of late. Facebook friends, and I don’t have many, have my news feed overflowing with positive posts.
I have always been one of those people that love the positive, inspirational quotes but enough already! Really, we have no clue if things are going to be alright, we don’t know what spiritual beings are really thinking, and I don’t want to learn to be happy with what I’ve got.
Presumably the notion is that we will find happiness in acceptance and that may be so, but what I see as reality is that there is much unhappiness in our lives and maybe we’ve be accepting it too long.
