STRIPPED and NAKED

As sure as the sun rises in the morning somewhere, it also sets each night somewhere. Last night, as usual, I stripped my clothes off, jumped in bed and pulled the covers up to my neck. I felt the warmth of my sheets and bed spread take over my body. All the emotional highs and lows of the day passed away into never never land.

This morning I woke up again, refreshed and ready for the new day. This morning was different. In the crisp am temp, I jumped out of bed clothed in the warm feeling the sheets left over my body from the night’s sleep, I quickly ran to the kitchen, made a pot of coffee, ran and jumped back into bed, pulled the yet warm covers up to my head, to enjoy the isolation and solitude it offered me. I robbed this JOY, connected to it, the warmth, the security and the retreat in time, b4 my day begins with a new fresh cup of coffee.

NO! This is not a sexy story. Sorry!!

The world outside my door, so far today, does not exist yet, I have CONTROL of myself. I’m positive, joyful in my MINDSET for the day. I dressed, I had a fresh cup of coffee in my hand. I opened the patio doors, sat and enjoyed the birds in song, enjoying sips of coffee as I smiled and listened to the sounds of the morning sunrise.

This is my way, one of many, in how I deal with the best moments of my life. I take the little things and surround my mind with them. Even though, right now today, my world, as yours may be, is in troubled times, this pandemic has taken over most of the world trying to strip us of our joy! Just as I am affected, you are to, in the many profound and very real ways.

I like to create my “joy” around me, to hold it. I make time to have about five people in my life who I can contact, call and visit with, even have a beer with (at home). For me, it is mandatory. I, most often, run from negative people, TV, news and such, as that can be a REAL BATTLE at times!! I use a skill I learned when talking to people or on the phone…with people, I put my HAND up and say “talk to the hand”, which shuts them up or tones it down. On the phone, again, if it gets to neg, I will say “talk to the hand”. It usually saves me from dropping into the peak of a LOW neg. Sometimes, I also get that “frown” on folks that makes me smile!!

I find the little things, the joy that helps me create my mindset to help offset the pandemic in suffering and pain…because this pandemic is the nature of the beast. Death, isolation, fear, facing the unknown and grief and loss will strip me of my small joys and could lead to depression if I kept swimming in the NEG’S all the time.

I know this pandemic is real, I am not throwing it under the “bus” saying it won’t affect me, because it does, it does all of us. So, in keeping the truth of of it in mind, I know it will PASS and will benefit me…showing me how I coped with it and will in the future.

My happiness is based on myself and will not be dictated by my circumstances in life. This way I know I will keep a consistent basis in my joy of life. Things I have experienced in life ended without any extra effort (at times MORE) on my part, and then there is the new SHIT that happens. I have been into things “mentality” and have put forth a HELL of a lot of EFFORT to make a BAD go away.

RIGHT NOW, in my share in this blog…LIFE is far less about what happens to me than it is how I react to it. I feel I am more in charge of how I feel. The routine of happiness getting to my head and failure to my heart does not kick my ASS so much. Call it a “mindset” or call it “being mature”, most of all call it “what it is”. NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING in life is permanent. Bottom line.

As sure as the sun rises in the morning somewhere it also sets each night somewhere. Some things in life you can control, somethings in life you can not. Be WISE!!!

Thought: Can you control STRIPPED and NAKED!!

Later: John