The last line of Neo-Illumination #6 is....
Happiness might be based on much truth one can ignore.....
I've tried to reduce my intake of information, somewhat, over the last few months just to see if it made me any happier.....( I still read the paper cover to cover every day but I don't digest the stories as much)
Not much difference in level of happiness.
Following certain sports teams (Dodgers, Trojans, Rams and Lakers) creates absolute perfect moments of happiness and satisfaction along with disappointments and frustrations...so there will always be those emotional moments. I feel sorry for cities where their teams never deliver the positive side of that equation.
I'm generally not an unhappy person even though my daughter would say that my outbursts of anger indicate overwise.
I could elaborate the reasons for raising my voice but I won't at this time. Suffice to say it comes down to chores not done and responsibilities not accepted.
Some of you out there know my situation at home and keep wondering why I let it continue.
I guess I compare moments from the past to the present...…and where being happy sits on the grand scale.
Of course there are moments of reflection that hold no room for the word happy to exist.
Getting loud doesn't have anything to do with being happy.....in fact my father swore that it helped to relax him. The secret is not to hold on to that anger and let it alter your personality. Most of my loud behavior takes place between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. It's not fun being woken up in the middle of the night and I currently experience that "event" 4 or 5 times EVERY week.
Interacting with my beautiful 4 year old granddaughter should be a highlight of my life.
My daughter and her mother go out of their way to make sure that doesn't happen....even though she and I do manage to extract some lovely moments. She made me a musical instrument the other day with rubber bands that was completely precious.....and I got her a new Tablet with a pink cover that she really really loves....so we have our moments but they should be much more numerous.
The Covid lockdown can be explained for some of the behavior.....but not all of it.
Enough with the personal stuff...let's get to the grit.
THE BORDER situation is 24/7 news for FOX.....please look at this chart