Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

 

 

 

 Pachelbel's Canon

 

 

 

Our weak and negative states leave us open to 'take

on' outside prevailing conditions. . .We are shaken

with the wind and float with the current because we

present the negative.

--
Henry Wood

 

 
 
 
 
Bride
 
 
 
A bad day usually begins badly. All it takes sometimes is one thingInspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music to go wrong and we run to our battle stations for the rest of the day.
 
 Then it seems all that ever comes our way are more bad things.
 
 By the end of the day, we're glad it's over.
 
But our day didn't have to go badly if only we had detached right from the start.
 
 Instead of believing we were victims of an unset alarm clock, a ripped shirt, unpressed pants, an angry partner, demanding children, or burnt toast, we could have accepted the upsets and let go of them.
 
 Life is so much better when we aren't drowning in the upsets around us.
 
We don't have to absorb the antics of others or get caught up in the material and mechanical inconveniences.
 
 A sure sign of maturity is being able to accept an upset for a few minutes and then let it go.
 
 

 
 

 

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with

sniffles predominating.


-- O. Henry

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 The balance in life places us between happiness and sadness.Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music Life can't always be ecstatically happy and free from woe, just as it isn't always miserably unhappy.
 
 Somewhere in the middle is a gray area where neither smiles nor sobs predominate.
 
 Living life on its terms means accepting the events life brings without overreacting with ecstasy or depression.
 
Acceptance sometimes means we may not feel happy and we may not feel sad -- we may just feel.
 
This is the middle ground of feeling that isn't high or low -- it seems indefinable. We don't always have to feel great.
 
Sometimes we can just feel okay. Accepting that middle-of-the-road feeling and not trying to analyze it or define it gives us the freedom to have gray areas in our lives.
 
And sometimes it is the gray area that keeps us from bouncing off walls or riding an emotional roller coaster.
 
 Accepting the gray area can give us sanity.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Happiness grows in our own firesides and is not

to be picked in strangers' gardens.
 

-- Douglas Jerrold

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The old saying The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Musicis an appropriate sentiment for envious people.
 
When we look at another couple or another family, we may only see the good points.
 
We may look for the same good points in our relationships and families and not find them.
 
We then conclude our happiness, security, and contentment can only occur if we have what others have.
 
In an old comedy routine, a restaurant customer points to another diner and says to the waiter, I'll have what she's having.
 
The waiter immediately takes the half-eaten food from the other diner and gives it to him.
 
However, we can't take the good things that others have, nor can we share them.
 
We can only learn from them, making things better in our relationships and families. Only we can make things good.
 
 
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Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music 11/11/2008

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Purple Orchid image Copyright © Drazenka Kimpel

Pachelbel's Canon music Copyright © Steven Halpern

Storm Bride image Copyright  © Pixabay

Goddess image Copyright © Tang Yuehui

Yule Angel image Copyright © Anne Stokes

Fly To The Moon and Angel images Copyright © Tang Yuehui

Umbriel image Copyright © Caro

Love On The Run image Copyright © Jean-Paul Avisse

(  Permission to use the copyrighted images of Jean-Paul Avisse is licensed from Prestige Art Galleries, Inc. )

Emei image Copyright © Tang Yuehui

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