Form Happy - Ep. 455

We don't have to be so Form Happy, we can just let life be messy and live it anyway as best we can.

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Ep. 455 - Form Happy

We begin as always 
with the Happy Creed.

We believe in Happy, 
in Balance and Growth, 
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.

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My Happy Friends!

It’s nine-thirty at night as I write this, I often start late, that’s kind of the norm,
But I still usually finish writing, recording, drawing, and posting by midnight,
I usually make the lines rhyme, which forces me to keep it nice and tight,
Changing the content, while staying on message, but rarely playing with the form.

But life isn’t always so consistent--for example, not fifty miles away there’s a wildfire,
I get alerts on my phone and there’s evacuations already, hundreds of acres burned,
What can you say to a person whose whole life has become so dire?
Is Balance and Growth really what they need when their world is upturned?

Well, maybe, I’ve been through fires myself since moving to the West Coast,
Been evacuated, even burned out of my home, and keeping perspective can help,
Learning to let go of what doesn’t matter, looking for joy where you can find it,
Kindness can come from unlikely sources, connection and compassion can be found.

We don’t have to be so rigid,
We don’t have to be so strict, 
We don’t have to be so Form Happy,
We can just let life be messy, 
And live it anyway 
As best we can.

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