So, there’s an elephant in the room. There has been for a while. I both want to talk about it and don’t, because there are other people more qualified, who do that much better than me, but I figure I might as well share a few thoughts.

We are in a very scary, sad and infuriating time. Very. And I am scared, and sad, and frustrated and enraged and feel overwhelmed…and I’m also happy.

I’m sure that’s a full-on WTF for many. Please, hear me out.

Let’s go back to 2016. I had people I actually loved look at me and say, “How bad could it be?” Most of those people aren’t in my life anymore. I knew how bad it could be. You probably did to. And, here we are. Worse than I dared myself to imagine. And we’re only six months in this time.

When people ask how I became a Happyist, I explain that I was in a very bad mood from 2016-2022, and at the end of 2022, I knew I could not go on with that frame of mind, and that level of unhappiness any longer. Something had to change.

And what I was feeling was an internal angst, more than anything. And it was awful. Just awful. You wouldn’t necessarily know how I was feeling from looking at me or interacting with me. Gallows humor served to cover a lot of it up. But it was there, and it was eating away at me slowly, in big bites.

Please, don't do that to yourself. Listen in for more of the why. xo

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