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Today's
Meditation:
I
wonder how many of us feel sometimes that what we share is
somehow insignificant. I wonder how many of us hold
back on sharing our happiness because we think it may be
inappropriate or because we think someone else may be in a
bad space and won't appreciate what we share. And
just how do we share happiness?
I
know one way that we don't share it: by telling
anyone else that they "should be happy."
An entertainer used to do this, telling members of the
audience that life was beautiful and that if they weren't
happy they were doing a disservice to life and to
God. She was very successful and happily married,
and very happy. At the time. A few years
later, when she was going through a very painful divorce,
she told an interviewer just how much she regretted saying
those words while on stage--she had shown no compassion at
all to where other people might have been in their
personal journeys.
We
lose nothing of our own happiness if we share it--as long
as we don't create artificial expectations in our minds as
to how people should react when we share our positive,
upbeat messages about happiness. If we expect
certain responses, disappointment most certainly will
follow.
Can
our happiness and positive energy be as a candle in the
night, as a beacon to others who are looking for ways to
feel happy themselves? If we want it to be so, then
we can just be ourselves, giving of ourselves from our own
happiness, showing unconditional love to others while we
demonstrate what a life of happiness--no matter what our
circumstances--truly can be.
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