Blog Day 8

Today's Nudge:  What do you do to foster joy?  What's your version of "flinging glitter in the trenches"?

Hmmmm, well like Effy said, there is always something gloomy going on, hurricanes, earthquakes, too much rain, too hot, not enough money, road are too bumpy..always something.  But I try to remember that even though everyone has trenches they have to go through, there is always something better once you get out of the trench.  You get older and wiser, you learn to put up with the crap out there because that is easier than having to trunch through it, or deal with it.  I mean you don't always have to get your hands dirty, you can just accept the way it is and leave it alone.

We all have good days and bad days.  The thing is is that you have to get past it and on to something else, take your mind off it, get involved in something that doesn't scream "me, me, me".  Go volunteer at a food bank or soup kitchen, go to a hospital and visit the elderly, offer to do something for your neighbor, get your mind off of you and put it on someone else.  Try to make their day a little better.  The pastor at my old church, he and his wife are always volunteering for things, offering to cook someone dinner, setting up for a craft fair in a town that isn't the one they live in, driving someone to a doctor's appointment.  They are all about what people "should" be doing, doing something for someone else.  I've done that at time, but not to the extent they do; they don't sit still for a minute hardly, always doing something for someone else.

I think that might be the key, but we all get there at different time hopefully.  Just keep trying and make somebody else happy before you and that gets the ball rolling.