Food for Thought
Friday, 30 July 2004 10:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fatrockstarDear Carolyn: Do you think there are people out there who are incapable of happiness because they derive a large part of their identity from being miserable? -- Friend
Dear Friend: I don't think they're incapable of happiness so much as afraid of it. When a person gets her hopes up about something, she runs the risk of being let down. To some people that's the same thing as looking stupid. So, they just play Eeyore and that way the world never tells them any bad news they didn't already know.
I also think some people complain all the time because they can't figure out what else to say.
Slowly but surely I am separating myself from this mindset. I don't want to be afraid of being happy (or stupid, because I know I'm not)!
Dear Friend: I don't think they're incapable of happiness so much as afraid of it. When a person gets her hopes up about something, she runs the risk of being let down. To some people that's the same thing as looking stupid. So, they just play Eeyore and that way the world never tells them any bad news they didn't already know.
I also think some people complain all the time because they can't figure out what else to say.
Slowly but surely I am separating myself from this mindset. I don't want to be afraid of being happy (or stupid, because I know I'm not)!
