“How We Too Often Make Our Good Feelings Turn Into Dissapointment”
It is really easy to do and we so often do it without even noticing. Follow this and see if you are one of these people, even some of the time.
So, you get a good feeling, maybe a gut instinct and you feel like something good is around you or going to happen to you. That’s a nice feeling!
What do you — we — often do?! We LOOK for confirmation. We buy a lottery ticket, start dreaming of what would happen if…. We imagine that NOW is the time our ship will come in etc. etc. Guess what? When those things don’t happen, we get dissapointed, we even get depressd: “how come other people have this or that and I don’t…?” “How come I didn’t win this or gain that?”
Of course, the next thing that happens is… well, the good feelings are gone and we have served only to prove the good feelings false. Not a great reinforcing cycle.
WHAT TO DO?!
As the Beatles said, “let it be”. If you feel good or feel the presence of good, let it be! If you do that, and DON’T look for anything the feeling lasts a long long time.
My oldest daughter said to me at dinner tonight, after I was informing her about some writing I have been doing lately, “Dad, sometimes we weren’t meant to look too hard for things; sometimes we just have to let go and let things happen.” She is right. We then had a good talk about what I have just written for you to read. We had a laugh and then agreed: “Let it be, and good things last so much longer… maybe your whole life long…”
Namaste
