This Sunday, at Church at which I started going to, the Priest reminded me about the nature of addiction and how we can become addicted not only to material things or substances not excluding chocolate, but also to certain feelings/emotions and states of being. An example of that is despair, "seeing all the negative" which stands on the way to be joyfull, exhuberant, and loving all the beautiful things that surround you and already exist everywhere you look. Sort of like a fragment from the movie American Beauty when the plastic bag is blown away by the wind up in the air and it dances floats and caresses the air in such beautiful way that touches us, but only if we allow ourselves to notice the beauty in its seemingly ordinary existance.

I also've read the chain email, one of those cheesy ones that I always wonder where they come from, and of course inspite knowing that it is probably fake, I teared up. It spoke about a blind man whose wife just passed away and who was going to a nursing home. When the person described the room to him his response was "its beautiful!!", then he added that we create our own happiness and we can choose either to be happy with what little that we have or to be miserable with all the things that are missing from our life.

I will chose to be happy today, no matter what!