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What you’re saying…Finding joy amidst the melancholy

by Staff Writer

Suzanne writes, “Melancholy…I feel that. I feel that today and a few others. Someone once told me, though, when you’re feeling something, sit down and take a look around…acknowledge it and it will pass at some point. Life goes too fast…enjoy today for the joys IT brings rather than worrying about the sorrows of yesterday or the potential ones tomorrow.”

It’s true. The quickest way out of a feeling is to sit down in it for a moment to really feel it. It is the dismissing of it that makes it linger. If you truly nestle into what is the heart of it causally, emotionally and physically then you are most likely able to find your qay out of it quicker than those of us who would wish to forget the emotion.

My dear Suzanne, if the melancholy still plagues you this close to the holidays, remember that there are many people around you who love and admire you. You are a gifted, special soul worthy of more love and respect (R-E-S-P-E-C-T) than you’ve been getting.

So, stop sitting in that emotion. The time is nigh to get up, and dust yourself off for more beautiful things. My best wishes to you and yours this holiday…

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Posted in Previous Authors on December 24th, 2006

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2 Responses to “What you’re saying…Finding joy amidst the melancholy”

  1. Suzanne Says:
    December 27th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    Thank you Christina…sometimes we all forget the good things in our lives and dwell on what is wrong/bad. Is this human nature? Somehow I think so…no matter what you have, it easier to remember and lament over what you don’t have. You’re right, though. If I’ve learned only one thing in these trying times, it’s that I have the greatest family and friends - people who are always there for me and are greatly responsible for this “strength” everyone is convinced I contain. After that, there’s nothing more a person could really want!

  2. Christina Paulsen Says:
    December 28th, 2006 at 11:18 pm

    You’re welcome, darling. Thanks for reading.

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