Happiness is Being Fluid and Unpredictable

So this week, I’ve been trying to figure out my future, and along with that, my website, which is about to get a revamp, along with writing a newsletter that doesn’t bore or annoy people, which is tough because boring and annoying are two of my life skills. But while I was figuring out what I wanted, I thought of the life theme I’d picked out years ago, and searched the archives to see if I’d noted who said it first, and that led me to a five year old Happiness post, which I’m going to copy below because, well, we need it:

“Long ago, I read that it was important to stay fluid and unpredictable, and I was so charmed by those two words together that I took them as life theme. I already knew that rigidity led to nothing but grief. Rigid belief systems break at the first serious challenge, rigid social systems disintegrate and fall to rebellion, rigid lives end up bleak and unfulfilled. “Rigid” so often means “brittle,” a word that’s only attractive when it’s paired with “peanut,” but a fluid approach to the world that accepts its unpredictability with open arms and a firm conviction that chaos is, at the very least, interesting often leads to joy. Someone close to me once said, in exasperation, “You’re such a Pollyanna!” but I don’t think I’m unrealistic. I just look at change as something with huge potential, sure to make me look at the world in a new light, learn something new, become someone new. Things don’t always (or even often) turn out as I planned, but my life has never been boring. I chalk that up to being fluid and unpredictable.

“Or as Berkeley Breathed and Opus would say:

“How did you meet joy with open arms this week?”