I don't know what it is about this time of year, but it just seems to be a little harder to laugh and a little harder to smile. Maybe it's the dreariness or the fact that the sun hasn't made much of an appearance lately, hich always dampens my mood, but I've just been really out of it lately.
And I don't know how to fix it. Or even if I can. Happiness is something I tend to take for granted when I have it and then when it doesn't show up for a while I just let it get worse. I know that I have control over what I let affect me, but it's hard to not let in the sadness.
It gets harder and harder to get out of the sadness too, (and I don't want to call it a depression because I don't think that is what it is), but I know that I have to. Johnathan Safran Foer has a quote that I tend to put towards this situation when it happens and it's from the book/movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
This is something that I've thought so much about after seeing this quote and watching this movie. Because I do it so much. I'll be so happy and excited about something until I begin to think about it so much that I begin to find "cracks in the pavement" and then think myself out of my happiness.
So this is something I'm going to try and work on this year because it's important to be happy. I've started this project I found on Tumblr where if something good or if something that makes you happy happen to you, you write it on a piece of paper and put it in a jar so at the end of the year you see how many amazing things have happened that year. I really like this idea and I hope I can keep up with it because I think it will help.
That is all. Thanks for reading.
Love,
Natalie
And I don't know how to fix it. Or even if I can. Happiness is something I tend to take for granted when I have it and then when it doesn't show up for a while I just let it get worse. I know that I have control over what I let affect me, but it's hard to not let in the sadness.
It gets harder and harder to get out of the sadness too, (and I don't want to call it a depression because I don't think that is what it is), but I know that I have to. Johnathan Safran Foer has a quote that I tend to put towards this situation when it happens and it's from the book/movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
This is something that I've thought so much about after seeing this quote and watching this movie. Because I do it so much. I'll be so happy and excited about something until I begin to think about it so much that I begin to find "cracks in the pavement" and then think myself out of my happiness.
So this is something I'm going to try and work on this year because it's important to be happy. I've started this project I found on Tumblr where if something good or if something that makes you happy happen to you, you write it on a piece of paper and put it in a jar so at the end of the year you see how many amazing things have happened that year. I really like this idea and I hope I can keep up with it because I think it will help.
That is all. Thanks for reading.
Love,
Natalie
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