Looking for love happiness in all the wrong places

Have you ever been looking for something that you just can't find? You know you've seen it millions of times over the last few days, but you just can't seem to remember where? How can we open the same drawer 20 times and not recognize the objects that are inside? That's because you can't see something you're not looking for. We rummage through a pile of junk seeking out a particular object, and that's the only object we pull out. We do the same thing with our attitudes and the way we view the world.

I had one of the toughest days yesterday that I've had in a long time. I was anxious and depressed to the point of panic, and I allowed it to escalate all day simply because I kept dwelling on the fact that I was feeling that way. I let my thoughts take over my head until I wasn't even involved in the world around me anymore. It was then that I decided I was just going to take all the negative thoughts, accept them, and push them aside. If we are only looking for the negative, depressing aspects of our lives, of course that's wall we're going to see. On the other hand, if we train ourselves to seek out the positive, all the negative junk is going to get left behind in the drawer.

I know what you're thinking. It's a lot easier said than done. Well, I'm not saying it's easy at all. I'm just saying that of all the things in this world that we have absolutely NO control over, why not make an attempt to control the one thing over which we do have power? Our attitudes. It's ok to be sad. It's ok to be depressed. It's even ok to be angry. What's not ok is when you let that sadness, that depression, or that anger take hold of you and block out everything that's good. When you start to feel negative, tell yourself "ok, you're feeling ____, and that's ok." and let it go. Stop looking for the tape when what you really need is the scissors. Otherwise, you're going to miss them, and when you need them you won't remember where to find them.