Comments on: Get happy http://kelleyeskridge.com/get-happy-2/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: rhbee http://kelleyeskridge.com/get-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-24944 rhbee Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:54:41 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=4476#comment-24944 Sorry, Alexander, it was one of those Freudian slip typos. Sorry, Alexander, it was one of those Freudian slip typos.

]]> By: rhbee http://kelleyeskridge.com/get-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-24940 rhbee Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:51:47 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=4476#comment-24940 First, I just want to say that the blogosphere works in many wondrous ways to make me happy. I can't, for example, move to Seattle so T and I could have real time discussions with you and N on a regular basis. We can't come to your block parties, nor go dancing. But the net, lets us do the next best. BTW, we have been enjoying a wonderful new show on HBO based on Alexandra McCall Smith's, Number One Detective Agency series. It is providing a great example of how people can be happy and serious and sad and real. As for fear and love, well, for me it comes down to self. How I feel about myself seems directly related to how much of either of the two I am expressing. The more sure of my self and the life I am living the more control I have of the fear and the more able I am to express the love. First, I just want to say that the blogosphere works in many wondrous ways to make me happy. I can’t, for example, move to Seattle so T and I could have real time discussions with you and N on a regular basis. We can’t come to your block parties, nor go dancing. But the net, lets us do the next best.

BTW, we have been enjoying a wonderful new show on HBO based on Alexandra McCall Smith’s, Number One Detective Agency series. It is providing a great example of how people can be happy and serious and sad and real.

As for fear and love, well, for me it comes down to self. How I feel about myself seems directly related to how much of either of the two I am expressing. The more sure of my self and the life I am living the more control I have of the fear and the more able I am to express the love.

]]> By: Sarah http://kelleyeskridge.com/get-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-24901 Sarah Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:07:02 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=4476#comment-24901 Kelley - yes! yes! yes! to everything you say here. I believe you're right and that we're conditioned to focus on others (including making others unhappy) rather than focusing on being happy ourselves and being able to share that. I'm still, with great humility, learning how to do this. It's so much *easier* to walk around being critical of others than to take responsibility for knowing what I want and creating that. Incidentally, the book, "What Happy People Know," is one that I'm currently reading. It echoes what you say here. Nice to see the message reinforced. Kelley – yes! yes! yes! to everything you say here. I believe you’re right and that we’re conditioned to focus on others (including making others unhappy) rather than focusing on being happy ourselves and being able to share that.
I’m still, with great humility, learning how to do this. It’s so much *easier* to walk around being critical of others than to take responsibility for knowing what I want and creating that. Incidentally, the book, “What Happy People Know,” is one that I’m currently reading. It echoes what you say here. Nice to see the message reinforced.

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