Joy for 2008

I'm voting for Joy.

The past fifteen days have been more or less turbulent for me. Life has been turned upside down not only once, but I think for a total of three times, in the past fifteen days.

Sometimes its hard to catch a breath.

But I won't let it get me down. I can't let these little things bring me down. I can't give them any more power than they have stolen from me. And believe me, I have lost a lot of time.

To keep in the apparent political theme my myspace page has taken (I'm sorry about that...I'll fix that later, I promise!)...I am voting for Joy in 2008. Joy in all circumstances. In plenty and in want.
In good times and bad. When I just can't take it anymore, I will choose joy.

I'm tired of giving power in the life that was given to me to all these people who are not me. I won't defend those who will not take care of my heart, nor will I be broken down by the empty words that have no place in my heart and mind. I'm only recording the good things, wise things, hopeful things. Everything else can just fall to the floor.

I get that this is easier said than done. And I will probably fail more than I will succeed. But I don't care. I am going to hold on to this hope that things are going to get better because I have to got to believe that choosing joy is better than letting sorrow chosen for me.

Thirteen years of living for everybody else did not work out in the end. The upcoming presidential election is all about change...so I guess its apropos that I've got to change, too.

Any journey that brings us closer to joy and hope and love is always a good one.

At least that's the campaign promise.

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