Impending joy
I was sitting in a journalist and writers group in 1996 in a restaurant on the wharf in San Francisco. Everyone was talking about tragedy and drama and how friction makes the best writing material. I raised my hand and said, Yes, but how do we deal with impending joy? And everyone laughed.
But seriously, I have felt such amazing surges of joy in my life and happiness and the older I get the deeper these feelings run. How come there is no forum to write about that? Or is joy and the simple habit of happiness reduced to blog bytes because no other venue will support these emotions?
We were discussing a couple we know who are both pessimists – shouldn’t one be slightly more optimistic to balance out the relationship? Dare to think happy is what I want to say as I shake them.