It's been a whirl of a twirl round here, and I hope I have at least a few of you readers left! Here I am, back in the saddle. If any of you are wondering about my personology -- I'm a sanguine -- and this means that rote repetition of any kind drives me crazy... not that writing is always rote or repetitious but in general I tend to get bored with routine -- but I'm working on it -- afterall routine is nearly always necessary to success. Right? Right.
I had an amazing 4th of July yesterday -- spending way too much money with people I totally enjoy -- and then waking up this morning feeling equally as happy and deciding to go over to my Facebook to check that out -- only to see a most recent "fortune cookie" posting which read: "The difference between Friendship and Love is the pain it causes" -- WHOA -- talk about raining on my little happy parade..... what kind of fortune is that?
And from this spawned today's topic -- increasing your ability to be happy. Now this is something that not too many of us think of -- we generally don't ask ourselves, or others, how ABLE are we to experience happiness. Nevertheless, what I've noticed and what has most recently been written about in Pop-Psych is the idea of "upper limits" -- meaning that we each have an upper limit for pleasure or happiness and when we reach that limit, we tend to find any way we can out of the happy state and back into the problem state, where we feel more at ease -- or more normal.
We pull away, we doubt, we hold back --anything we can to escape something that makes us feel too good, and well I guess this all stems from that lil piece of advice that says "If its too good to be true, it probably is". However what if that lil piece of advice is not always correct? What if we could actually experience something Good most of the time? What would be wrong with that?
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