4/6/2010 - Venting About Venting.

My writing challenge is to rant and rave today…to let it all out without holding back…without trying to "behave." I really don't want to rant and rave unless it's about how great someone or something is. I was just having a discussion about the dysfunction of venting with my sisters. If we imagine our own suffering (which I believe we do) and manifest our own joy (which I KNOW we do), why would we give time and energy to anger and pain and frustration? All the great venters in my life seem miserable. They only seem satisfied when they have a hundred things to vent about. Who wants to be around that? I don't want to be the validator of your invented issues. I certainly don't want anyone validating my own whinings when I get stuck in a pity-rut. Gross. Slap me with a sandwich and walk away from my sorry self. Then I will have to choose… to stay in my self-created darkness alone, or to move into that fabulous light of present moment joy. I've often made a habbit of pouting and complaining, getting angry over things I can't control, but I get stuck in it less and less often. My time in that space is shinking fantastically.  I am able, so much more often now, to see it for what it is and make a different choice. I will choose joy…over and over as long as I am awake enough to see how to get there… I will choose love, and self-care, and calm. There really is not enough time for ranting and raving… even if we are here forever.