Living Happiness

Dear readers,

When I began this blog two months ago, it was my intention to just share my life as it is lived … which meant to me that despite the happy title of my blog, my posts would run the gamut of the emotions and experiences we feel in life, not denying the one for the other but accepting all of them for what they are. This is how I’ve learned to live my happiest life over the years: not by allowing only the “good” emotions to show through but also being with and experiencing the “bad” ones, as well … and learning how to not put labels of “good” and “bad” on these emotions.

So I am writing today to tell you that I am sad … and have been for about three weeks now. I have tried to think positive, to keep order and routine in my world, to take quiet, veg-out days, and to do social things, too. I have struggled with all of them.

It is difficult for me to articulate to you this sadness and the source(s) of it, but perhaps it’s not that important that I do. Maybe the confessing of it and acknowledging of it is enough. We all go through these times in our lives. I happen to be going through one of them, now.

If you have noticed a tone of sadness in my blog posts or an infrequency in the number of times I actually do post, this is why. I love writing. But lately I have wanted less to write than to just live. To be. Maybe you can understand why.

I am not writing today to put an end to my blog. No, I am writing simply to be honest with you who have been such faithful readers and supporters of me.

I take great comfort lately in the words from the third chapter of Ecclesiastes: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” I know that this too shall pass … in its time.

Peace to all of you,

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