I Just Can't Be Happy Today... Well Actually I Can, We All Can

Introduction

This is the second Seven Days In Excavation From 2014 this weekend which is very unusual but thought it was worth sharing on Vocal, just about how we can find happiness even when we don't feel a hundred per cent.

I suppose that my Seven Days In posts have influenced a lot of my Vocal writing.

The only thing is there was very little fiction and poetry, and no challenges for me then, but it pleases me when interesting pieces resurface in my most-read list.

I am sure that one day I will have excavated all the stories from my blog and shared them on Vocal, but for now, they will keep being mined.

I Just Can't Be Happy Today... Well Actually I Can, We All Can

Well actually I can, everybody can, there's always something to enjoy or feel good about. I was at a great gig last night by the Star Spangled Chestwigs and had a great crack on with several friends. When I left we got an "affectionate" goodbye from Shev and the crowd, got to the Metro station, the train pulled up, which got me into Newcastle Monument where I walked to my bus stop two minutes before the last bus turned up. That wasn't planning, it was luck, but just made me feel better.

I took the title from the excellent Damned song.

Earlier in the day I'd had lunch at Cafe Rouge with my daughter Juliet, which was excellent, great service , and there were a couple of parties in , one of which had a few young mothers among their number. As I was leaving I noticed that one mother was breastfeeding her baby, the atmosphere was so relaxed that she could do that as it should be, completely naturally. Kudos to Cafe Rouge for providing that environment, they have gone up in my estimation.

The thing is being happy is a positive trait that should be practised and encouraged in everyone. Bad things happen but to work towards coping with them, and find something that will put a smile on your face.

A lot of people seem to spend more energy being miserable and they must have a sad life. The right wing push hate slogans, and people who are good friends of mine often spread these probably without thinking. On Facebook groups like Britain First and Right Wing News are particularly spiteful and nasty. Anyone on benefits spends all of that hard earned tax payers money on cigarettes, tattoos, alcohol and cable TV and immigrants just walk in here and get mansions and new cars, although it's seldom you can find hard examples of this. They seem to forget that their taxes are also paying for the tax "avoidance" / "evasion" of large corporations, but that is apparently ok. But what they don't think is that the avoided tax will end up bled out of the economy and in a Cayman Islands Hedge Fund, while cash paid out in benefits will stay within the economy. If we stopped ev

asion with the money returned to the economy we could employ people under the direct control of government to properly administer tax and benefits.

Many of the hate posts I've seen recently are targeting diabetics. "Don't they understand if they stop stuffing their faces with cake and chocolate they'd be ok". These have been posted by people I consider my friends. Well yeah, I'm overweight but don't not overindulge. Also what about Sir Steven Redgrave, hardly a lard arse, and a good friend of mine has far worse diabetes than me, which she is coping with but is a mere slip of a girl.

Really, I feel sad for the people who write and spread these things while happily they are taken advantage of by big business and right-wing governments and organisations.

So basically, the sun is shining, there are lots of things to do, pick up a phone and talk to a friend, meet them in a park or art gallery, go and see a film, listen to some music, read a book, go for a walk (I found an excuse to make myself go for a long walk earlier and feel better for it), there are lots of things you can do to make you feel good. Try to see the good in others but don't be taken advantage of. If someone is having a hard time , offer a helping hand, be there for your friends, I know all my friends are.

Anyway, there's been some diatribes here, but I am happy, I am good, and I am having a great weekend.. You do the same.

Thank you so much for sharing your time with me.