I was a mess. Life was hard and things weren’t going the way I wanted them to. Day after day I would wake up and go to sleep upset. I was trying to be fair and play nice, but things were happening that were unfair to me.
I couldn’t get over it. I didn’t even know how to get over it.
Until one morning months later, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and I read something that said, “eat diamonds for breakfast and sparkle all day long”.
For that day I decided I was going to sparkle.
It was hard and I certainly didn’t sparkle ALL day …but I realized I had built a really strong emotional habit about feeling bad that kept trying to suck me back in. People I talked to would ask questions and the answers I had been repeating for months had no sparkle in them.
But that day I remembered we have a choice about how we want to feel.
Sometimes we have to keep rechoosing it at every moment.
But the more you choose to sparkle, the better you feel… and at the end of the day that’s all we have ultimate control over anyway.