​EVEN HAPPY PEOPLE GET SAD by Pennie Hunt

Do you get irritated when you see happy people? You know the ones​ —​ the people who are always smiling. Always upbeat. Always humming as they work. You think sunshine and rainbows must hover over their home. You are certain they have a perfect life. The kind of life you want but just seeing them so unrealistically happy annoys you.
 
I teach people how to be happy. I give them tips and techniques to Love Your Life- No Matter What. I believe living with joy and happiness is a choice. I am one of those optimistic, look-at-the-bright-side happy people. It takes a lot to get me angry and even more to get me down. But it occasionally happens. Here is my point … even happy people get sad.
 
A couple of days ago I had a bad day. I couldn’t decide if I didn’t feel well, if I was sad, if I was lonely, if I was feeling sorry for myself, if I was tired, or if I was… well, a big combo of all of it.
It was a bad day.
 
So, I did the only thing I could think of. I put myself to bed. Like an over-tired 2-year-old, I needed to just close my eyes and let everything lift off my mind. I took a 2 ½ hour nap in the middle of the day – something I rarely do.
 
When I woke up my first inclination was to go back to sleep. Go back to that place of a blank mind, but instead, I stayed in bed and had a talk with myself. Of course, I went through my gratitude list of all the people and reasons I have in my life to be grateful and happy. I gave myself a stern, quit-feeling-sorry-for-myself lecture. I closed my eyes and began taking deep breaths. Not to go back to sleep, but to try to clear out the negative junk that was in my mind.
 
Then it came to me. No one is going to rush in and make me happy. No one is going to come to the rescue, wave a magic wand, and make me feel great. NO ONE CAN CREATE JOY FOR ME- except me! Joy is an inside job. My job. No one is going to do that for me.   
 
I teach happiness, but I still have an occasional bad, sad, no-good-rotten day. I have days when I need to listen to my own writings and practice my own tips and techniques.
 
I tell others, when you don’t know what to do – do nothing. For me, it was a 2 ½ hour nap to get me through my overwhelming confusion. What I do know for sure is being in stillness has a way of clarifying everything. Sometimes a nap and realigning how you look at things can go a long way to healing your heart and mind. It opens space for the answers you need and the guidance you should follow.
 
What I know to be true is that even happy people get sad. Sometimes those unrealistically happy people who annoy you are just better at covering their sadness with a smile. Sometimes those are the people you need to check in with. None of us get through life without times of sadness. For some people, times of sadness, grief, depression, and tragedy require professional help to walk with you through these times. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
 
But when you do have an occasional sad day, a down day, a rotten day, remember​ - joy is an inside job. No one can create joy for you except you.
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                                                  Pennie’s Life Lesson:
                                            Even happy people get sad.
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