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Mantra: I choose to be happy/excited.

 
Hi!  I am back.  I posted my summation blog yesterday, talking about my thirty day meditation journey. I mentioned I would also blog about the daily mantra, but alas, I forgot.  Oops. Sorry about that.  I do believe everything happens for a reason though, after all how could I possibly write two separate blogs, about two things that go hand in hand so well?
 
I choose to be happy.  I choose to be excited.  I personally feel these two can be fused together.  I mean what moment of excitement didn't result in happiness, or what moment of happiness didn't result in excitement?  Though we usually associate excitement with something big, the littlest of things can also make one excited.
 
A few days ago, my dad called me up and we chatted for a bit.  Recently back from a trip to Hawaii, I asked my dad to bring me back a pen or two.  I love pens, they are my weakness.  It is also something small when people go somewhere and ask what you would like.  I don't just enjoy writing on the computer, I also enjoy a bit of pen and paper...a lot.  Call me "old school", ha!   That being said my dad informed me that he brought me back twenty-four pens.  Apparently the majority of the places that were visited, resulted in a pen.  I was soooo excited, it turned my lackluster day into a happy one. 
 
I know some of you might think, 'why get excited over something so small?'  Well the reason is this, when you find joys in the small things, when the "big" exciting things happen, it feels like you just tipped the scale on life.  I have always loved the little things, because those are usually results of someone thinking about you and wanting to make you smile.  I'm a grown woman, but my dad knew remembering a pen for me would be cool in my eyes, but thinking of me at least twenty-four times, as my cousin put it, left an impression on my heart.  He didn't have to do it, but he did.
 
Choosing to be happy and excited is a choice and even on the worst days, there is always something to see that can make you happy.  I know we all have those annoying days, I had one today, and it is okay to have those days, but don't let it spill into the next and then the next and then on to the next.  Allow yourself time to recover from whatever happened, and then try to find something to make you smile and you will be back on your way to finding ways to choose happiness and maybe somewhere in there, a reason to be excited. 
 
Until tomorrow...life is a mystery, keep searching for the answers and have fun doing it.  

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