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Sudden attraction can prove a distraction,
And get you more thorns than flowers,
While a gradual reaction can gain you some traction,
And let you develop your powers.
[entire script below]
Ep. 395 - Gradually 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
Haha
My Happy Friends!
Sometimes you can see without feeling,
You’ll notice a sunset, a rainbow, or a flower,
But it doesn’t make you jump up and hit the ceiling,
‘Cause you’re just trying to get home before rush hour.
Some other time you’ll catch a glimpse of a poster for a movie you’ve never seen,
And without context it doesn’t really register as something you’d even want to see,
But then your friend tells you they think you’d find it really peachy keen,
And so you watch it, you love it, and now that same poster is as lovely as can be.
You can also be this way with human beings,
At first, everyone may seem like extras in the movie that is your life,
But then as you get to know them through multiple seeings,
You may begin to feel something about them, could be joy, could be strife.
You might meet an attractive person who is simply hateful,
Or a person you initially barely register, but who turns out to be a delight,
And this can make you value deeper connections, and be grateful,
And maybe not judge so quickly before you know what’s right.
I myself can look at something beautiful and not immediately care,
While at the same time clinging to something tattered and torn,
It’s not to say I can’t grow to love something pretty if I find more there,
Or that I’ve only ever liked ratty things since the day I was born.
I just don’t really do the “love at first sight” thing anymore,
I don’t get infatuated from a glance or a nice smile,
I have been burned by that way too many times before,
Where spending time with them made me feel like I was on trial.
So, now I take my time to connect before I attempt any form of attraction,
I can still appreciate sunsets, rainbows and flowers,
I just don’t let dreams of a pot of gold become a distraction
From my journey to becoming Gradually Happy, and fully engaging with my Happy powers.
Haha
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