Are you just not a happy person all the time? Or worse, are you just not happy even a little of the time? Did you not read my last post when I told you, “Just work on being happy, the rest will follow”? Now l’m going to get more specific.
If you want to be happy, then you need to follow Dr. Mom’s first rule of happiness: Get and stay in touch with your Inner Child! — even if it’s even a bit embarrassing.
Let’s be frank here, life has a way of sending these posts to me. I hadn’t thought to write this one until Ken just chided me for doing something inner-childish — wasting time in Hawaii watching an English (I.e. imported from England) cartoon (Thunderbirds Are Go, if you just have to know), but it takes me back to a time when watching cartoons was fun and relaxing, so there you go.
I hear some of you taking his side now- “Cartoons! Really! We paid big bucks to vacation in Hawaii!”
“Fie upon you all,” I retort, in my old British nanny tone.
Why not watch Thunderbirds? We all deserve some down time to do what we want? And it doesn’t really matter if other people think it’s childish, silly, or whatever. I bet inside each of them, just like inside you right now, they are a little envious at my ability (or maybe even bravery) to get out there and do something fun, just for the heck of it!
And, if I can do it, despite Ken’s tongue clucking, then so can each and every one of you.
So, go! Enjoy yourself however you darned well please! Go see Star Wars for the twentieth time( in full costume if you want), go try out surfing, read a comic book, watch Thunderbirds Are Go with me, or do whatever else it is that calls you. Have fun, relax, and let go.
Don’t just get in touch with your inner child. But rather, grab her, hold her, and hug the stuffing out of her. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men can always put her back together again. Embrace your inner child! You’ll be the better, happier!, person for it.
In the meantime, you may as well do as the meaniehead (my loving husband) says, “You GOTTABGATT! so go out there today and be Great! All the time!