It's Good to Be Happy

It you are of an older generation, you might remember a show from which we got many actors and directors that we have in movies and tv, today.  It's theme began with...

 "Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days.
Thursday, Friday, Happy Days.
The weekend comes,
My cycle hums,
Ready to race to you.

"These days are ours,
Happy and Free. (Those Happy Days)
These days are ours,
Share them with me. (Oh baby)
Goodbye grey sky, hello blue.
There's nothing can hold me when I hold you.
Feels so right, it can't be wrong.
Rockin' and rollin' all week long."

You see.. it was a GOOD thing to be happy.  People wanted a peaceful and happy existence.  And, they worked hard to make it come about.  When those days came, they took the time to enjoy them, not sabotage them or undercut the value of the good that they had.

Nowadays, it is trendy to be a victim.  I took a course one time in Victimology that spoke of it. Does it mean that there are no real victims or real offenses?  No.  However, the course spent time in focus on how it has become so popular to be a victim of something that people would rather have something of which to complain than to focus on the good that is present in their lives or to take responsibility for their own lives, when it is not.  

I have spoken at times about how I have connections to many people of many different backgrounds... some religious, some not.  I have spoken about my respect for many atheist friends of mine.  They tend to be very real and objective.  One difference that I have seen between the religious and the non religious is this.  A religious person will spend literally days or weeks or longer looking for who to blame for something or trying to identify wrong or sin or evil.  Meanwhile, an atheist that isn't looking for a devil to blame or sin to identify simply says.. this is how people are, and they don't have any problem grouping themselves in that "people" definition or accepting the "dark" side within themselves.  They don't look at someone to see if they are "good" or "evil" but simply are they someone that is interesting or beneficial for them to be around or not.

I've understood this difference for many years, though I have forgotten it over the last year a lot.  I have spent too long focused on the struggles or "evils" of my past or finding or accepting fault within myself for simply being myself.  There is none perfect... no not one, as says the Bible.  Yet, so many would have us focus on our faults, rather than focus on our good.

As a practical application of that, I am now working in a good job with good pay for a good purpose.  The money of that job is making my current life more comfortable and happy.  I am connected with good people and am enjoying my day to day life with my connections that only continues to grow in happy potential.  I don't spend time judging myself, and I have removed influences of those who seemed to have finding my faults at their mission.  My days are happy.  My sleep is peaceful.  My future is bright.  And, as much as many would have me focus on times when that was NOT the case, I now understand that it is not wrong to be happy or to set your gaze upon those that add to it and not those that are upset by it.

Be happy.  It's a good thing.  You deserve it.  Let the rest of your days write themselves from that focus.