I always wonder if people are truly happy all of the time or if it is just an act. If you see me out in public, i always seem so very happy. I have learned how to put on the mask, working retail will do that to you. I tell my people, customers dont care if your dog died, they just want you to help them. It is like when someone asks you how you are, it is a retorical question, no one really cares how you are...they are just being polite.
I often wonder if it is in the cards for me to be truly happy, is that an unrealistic expectation? I get that it is unrealistic to be eurphorically happy every single day, but i look at couples and wonder if after all the years of marriage are they really happy or just learn to stop complaining, learned how to put on the act?
I know that every persons path in life is different. I used to think that there was a window of opportunity to meet someone and I had spent mine with some a**hole loser and missed mine. I then met and married my husband, which i would tell people that no one could handle me like my husband. Then i just stopped saying it, i dont remember when. One day i remembered, said it, and instantly knew it was a lie when it left my lips. \
Once on the tonight show, a couple was asked how they had stayed married for 50+ years. The response was that neither of them had fallen out of love at the same time.
My issue is that when i have been pushed out of love, i never seem to fall back in love.
Happiness.....I've never given it much thought before. I think the only time I've ever been truly unhappy was when I was in my first marriage. I was really unhappy! Once I was out of it I was unhappy until I adjusted to being alone. But once I learned to be happy alone...I've never looked back.
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