Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! Happy Wednesday and mid-week for those of you on the Monday - Friday work week, for the rest of us it is still Wednesday and that ain't too bad. 🌞 Another potential ponderable from Ifferisms by Grothe Mardy.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach

A simple quote charged with consequence. The way I look at happiness, while related to the happenings in my life, it is rooted in my attitudes more than anything else. The happenings of happy-ness are seasoned by what happens in life, many days of thoughtful seasoning when I am the main one responsible for the proverbial mixing of the daily dose.

No one ever starts with that awareness, it is in the hands of others. Families get the first shot at making or breaking our happiness by the way the dynamics, known or unknown, play out. The teen years or young adults years usually open our eyes to either knowing our family doing pretty decent job, or really screwed up and we didn't know life could be different. Unquestioned normativity mirrors peace, but it really hampers growth and change. Unquestioned normativity always works best for those who benefit from the current dynamics. Questions and non-normative behavior usually mark the beginning of the change for the family, almost always caused by them Youngins.

Whatever the passage you made through the years of childhood and happiness, at some point in our adult years, we need to come to the awareness that happiness is really our work. Other can help or impede us, but it really is one of our treasured gifts to discover in life.

Too many base their own happiness on others, their self inflected misery is well documented. These pod-people are ever vigilant for their Donald Sutherland moment to announce how you are robbing them of their happiness. Alone, such human variants are comical, in hordes they are very dangerous. 2020 ushered in two pandemics, one from China that attacked our health, and one from our cultural custodians that attacked our sanity. China has successfully wrecked many economies, the custodians have frayed and poisoned the bonds of civility and society.

Finding oasis's of sanity, refuges from the storm, places of recentering and people who help you realize that happiness is your treasure, which they can be supportive of, but not the source of such happiness. One can't reasonably expect to experience or project happiness 24/7, but even on those days when overt happiness seems muted, there is an interior sense of it, Happy Wednesday Friends!