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Quick reminders about Balance, Growth, and the Everyday Divinity within ourselves. More or less. With your pal Happy Lord Geoffrey. HaHaHappy.org
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Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Letting yourself bend helps keep you from breaking, keeps you feeling scrappy,
Sometimes the taste of something bitter can make other things seem sweet,
So, rather than fighting every downturn, you could embrace being Woefully Happy,
And prove to yourself that feeling all your feelings needn't hurt, but makes you complete.
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Ep. 449 - Woefully 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.
Yowza
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My Happy Friends!
While I don’t claim to have diagnosable sorrow, I still, from time to time, get sad,
I get tired, overwhelmed, I feel defeated, and wonder when glad times will return,
It’s usually short-lived because I aim for balance and growth even when things get bad,
But sometimes I just want to take a nap and let sleep relieve me of any and all concern.
I treat it like catching a cold because while it may not seem like it at the time,
I know that it will eventually pass and I’ll be okay again, even if I do feel like crap,
Life has a way of keeping things moving, each day there’s a new hill to climb,
Or a new waterslide to race down, a new adventure, challenge, joy, hardship or mishap.
I’ve also had my fair share of deep grief, where I was inconsolable and weepy,
Where everything set me off and I started to develop a phobia against woe,
At those times I didn’t think that anything would fix it, I was beyond sleepy,
I was exhausted and it felt like the world wanted me to give in to the undertow.
But I stuck it out because I always wanted to see what would happen next,
Was it the point just before the big windfall, or was it the end of the road?
Was I about to have all my wishes fulfilled, or was I about to get hexed?
Also I never wanted to give my haters the satisfaction of watching me implode.
So, letting myself bend helped keep me from breaking, kept me feeling scrappy,
Sometimes the taste of something bitter can make other things seem sweet,
So, rather than fighting every downturn, I could embrace being Woefully Happy,
And prove to myself that feeling all my feelings didn’t hurt, but made me complete.
Haha
Yowza
10 days ago
I agree completely. We have a saying in the military “embrace the suck!” This means that when things suck, usually this includes a very early in the morning, often rainy or cold, no hot food, or even dangerous situations. Even though the saying is referring to the physical condition, it’s often used for the MENTAL and EMOTIONAL challenges people go through whether in the field or at home with loss and levels of despair. If you can, lean into it. Make it your own. ‘Turn into the skid.’ Sometimes that might just mean asking yourself “OK, this is bad, what am I gonna do about it?” What it did is it made us not fear worse conditions, but instead helped us face it head on. This is in no way easy, but it can help…and you have nothing to lose. It also made the sunrise (figuratively and often times literally) so much better as you said “Sometimes the taste of something bitter can make other things seem sweet.” I agree it also allowed us to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and try and do something about it. Often there’s nothing that can be done ‘about it’ but changing your attitude can changes your mood. We also have another saying “tough times don’t last, tough men do” which also helps realize that nothing lasts forever. Thanks, great message. I think your Post will touch more people than you think. This is certainly not an isolated thing to only a few people. (try pretty much all people). Thanks