I spy joy in elbow room

I was talking to my mom today about the rules we make up for our lives. Rules like: people who sacrifice and suffer for others get more points, no pain no gain, it’s more spiritual to live frugally than to live in opulence, I’m only worth as much as my job title, and, most alarming, you cannot eat chocolate every day.

What if, as Mike Dooley (author of Notes from the Universe) says, “the universe doesn’t give a flying yahoo” about our rules? What if the most important thing we had to do was to be happy?

It’s proven that happy people are more understanding, friendlier and much less likely to flip you the bird if you accidentally cut them off in traffic.

Maybe we should all just relax a little. And, as Denise Sharp said, “Give your soul some elbow room.”