You’d Be Surprised at How Contagious It Is

What if we just all got along and chose to Be happy? Wouldn't it be easier? Absolutely!

It’s as though we jump at the chance to belittle someone, to prove, for no reason at all, that we are somehow better than they. Instead of choosing to see that people are doing their best at their level of awareness and allowing the situation to ‘roll off your back’, if you will, you choose to react; you behave in the same way. Why?  Instead of entertaining the situation, change it. Choose to be above it. It may sound cliché but it’s something taught from a very small age, ‘if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all’.  Don’t react to the negative situation, person, happening etc. Know that you can choose to respond in a way that comes from your heart – not your head.  Now your ego will want to protect you – it’s what it does, and when you feel this about to happen or already happening – take it back, you are more than your ego. If you are content with being upset all the time – then there is no need to worry about work – you require no change. Now if you are done with wasting precious energy on being upset and would rather find a purpose for it – get ready for some work! J We are creatures of habit and learning to undo a lifetime of habit ties for first with being a mother as the hardest and most beautiful things I could have ever imagined…and it’s just the beginning. Choose to be HAPPY, choose to be your own light; You’d Be Surprised at How Contagious It is~ those around you will love you for it – let us hope they mimic that.

I Made My Neighbor Tortillas Today

The neighbors son comes over to check on Gabriel today, and I offer him something to drink or eat, he says no and continues on to say that if he becomes hungry he will simply go to his house because was he told by his dad not to offer food to guests at his home, as he was only providing food for those living under his roof, and if he did it again, he would be grounded for a month, so he is trying to not take from anyone else. {But you are not taking, I’m offering to give, were my thoughts} I was looking at him in confusion considering the openly religious nature of this family – I was, surprised.  (Who has me “stereotyping” anyway.)

I went on to think about how my children’s interactions were when they went over there. In our home, anyone who comes in is asked if they are hungry or would like something to drink – that is the norm for me – I grew up with that. Anyone who can relate knows that when you walk into your Abuela’s house, before you get to even sit, she has already placed the tortillas and beans and everything else she has on the table, and you have no choice but to eat! (lol) So when they go over and they are confronted with this – I wondered how they handle it. Ultimately I know they will be fine and they will learn their boundaries when it comes to others and how they run their households, but I hope they see that giving is so much better than not, and when you hold onto a belief, let it have the foundation of love; hold it whole and hold it honestly~