AGGRAVATION 101

I learned a while back that irritation is, like almost all human emotional responses, completely subjective.

What may annoy you one time - say, the sound of a screen door slamming - can be a completely joyous occasion the next time you hear it - when a part of your heart walks back into your life.

It's up to you.

Although it has taken most of my life, I am finding joy in almost all things nowadays. I will admit some times it is only after taking several deep breaths, counting to 5... or 10... or once in a very great while, to 134,288 - but it will come.

If I let it.

So next time something gets under your skin - a comment, a noise, a sight - let it go. Don't let it control what you are feeling. Remain where you want to be (hopefully happy, peaceful and content).

Happiness is a decision.

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Late-night ramblings mingled with personal affirmations and Psychology 101, Murray wisdom, and interrupted by Pandora demanding attention. If I can get Harmony to chuckle, then my purpose is complete.

BUT WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION.... it's been an interesting afternoon. I don't trust ANYthing on the internet and/or my computer being confidential, so I may pass on this info only verbally via trusted sources - and even then, I don't completely trust THAT source. One of the difficulties with living with a paranoid indivual is that after you are TOLD many times that "you can be read... no matter what you do to prevent it!", you almost come to believe it.

And I have to keep re-discovering that your own happiness can only come from within. Circumstances don't change, no knight on a white horse comes along to rescue you - happiness IS a decision (of course, anti-depressents may be a necessary factor also).