Saturday, May 9, 2009

National Temper Tantrum Day

There's a lot of talk right now about thinking positively, especially concerning the Law of Attraction. I think focusing on the positive is important. I also think it's just as important to honor when you feel shitty. I don't believe it's healthy to wallow in it. Wallowing is not honoring how bummed you feel. Wallowing is holding onto that feeling and not letting it flow through you. Because if you don't let it go, it just stays stuck and then you start to dwell on all the places in your life where things are wrong, and that just creates a downward spiral.
So I was thinking, if we had a National Temper Tantrum Day, everybody could just vent. I suggest we all stay inside and just have screaming fits, or we could have a parade whereverybody did their "I'm pissed" interpretive dance to get it all out. That's why they have Mardi Gras in New Orleans - one night to get it all your vices out because Lent comes in the next day.
I think supressed, passive aggressive anger does more damage than anything. Because then it stews and smolders like a volcano until it just blows.
One of my friends on facebook lost her adoptive son two years ago and it still hurts. When I was on her page, I saw that particular post and also noticed that it was a week old and nobody had commented on it. I posted, "Loss is a bitch. Even when we know that when people die they go into the light where there's nothing but Divine light ant love and hot, naked angels in a jacuzzi with you. On this end, it's still a bitch." What does this say? You're suffering and I see you in your suffering. Most people just want to be seen. Then they're done and they can move on to better in their lives.

1 comment:

  1. I totally agree. Even if I don't know what to sy to someone I tell them that. I thin people just want themselves/their grief to be acknowledge so they don't feel so alone, and to know that someone cares.

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