You know the feeling I’m talking about
it reaches right up inside you and suddenly – everything – feels
incredibly wonderful. Just everything!
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Isn’t it just about the best feeling ever!
Just imagine if we could capture it in a bottle.
Save it for those days where we need
to uncap the bottle of happiness and take a swig or two (or more).
Savor the taste, the flavor ~ inhale it, swallow in gulps.
Yes, that’s the happiness I’m talking about.
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I have a few bottles I’ve been saving up
And it dawned on me that happiness is not
to be selfishly contained but spread around.
No more hoarding happiness for me.
When I think of all the beautiful warm and loving
people that live on our planet I am happy.
When I breath in the fresh air (because I can) I’m happy.
When I witness and am a part of nature in all it’s glory
I’m happy.
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When I think how amazing lucky I’ve been
in my life, (I survived) I’m happy.
When I hear, read or view the beautiful
music,words and art that others have created
I’m happy.
When I think of my family and friends
(of course this includes those talented loving blogging friends)
I’m happy.
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When I see anyone with a big smile on their face
I’m happy.
And as I write this I realize, I am happy
so today,I share my happiness with you.
And it’s big enough to embrace
the entire planet and all of you!
Love and happiness to all of you!
YOU deserve it
so
Make it so!
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Share your happiness with me.
We’ll laugh and be happy
and then we’ll make a positive difference
together ~ Happiness works best
in groups. Because very large groups
of loving, compassionate and caring people
is a very happy thing.
As I’ve shared my happiness
with you today, amazingly enough
it turns out
I now have even more to share
for today
and tomorrow and all the days ahead,
You are not alone.
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Come ~ share your happiness with me.
If you’ve been missing happiness lately
I’ve noticed that it is quick to return
right after an awareness of
humble gratitude for that which you do have.
And remembering to appreciate this
by sharing with others!
Happiness seems to magically appear
soon after …
In large doses. Truly!
Have a most happy day today,
~ Penny
Emotional Media Coordinator
(Fictional piece and commentary)
“What do you think?”
“I think it’s brilliant. Why hasn’t someone thought of this before?”
“You know how ideas are, they’re just suddenly there!”
“So, have you found the person to fill this new position yet?”
“No, I have a few excellent prospects though. But I need to be extremely careful in the selection of this person. He or she will have a lot of control!”
“Well, I can understand that. You’ve settled on the name “Emotional Media Coordinator” then?”
“Yes, has a nice sound to it, don’t you think? This person will single-handedly train the first group of EMC’s Emotional Media Coordinators, whose sole task will be to follow our daily ratings and inform our media centers when they need to change the emotional mix of news being presented.
When the ratings are up they’ll send the message to include some “upbeat and fun” happenings in the news, or
perhaps some “new goings on in the science/art etc world. When the ratings begin to drop the Coordinators will send the message to play up the ‘negative news’ . You know, political happenings, disasters, scary things happening, ha, ha, lots of that out there! In the final analysis we will have our thumb on the emotional pulse of our viewers manipulatung their feelings so they’ll want to ‘stay tuned’, as it were!”
“I know we’ve already been doing that, generally speaking, but having a specific group to review, analyse and determine what we broadcast, and when, based on the numbers will really be a boost to our ratings.”
“Yes I’m sure it will. It’ll allow our “people” to “know” the type of content to show as well as how to emotionally present it to the public! This is just excellent.” The future is looking better and better – at least from my view of things – ha, ha, ha, get it … view of things … ha, ha, ha!”
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This was a piece of fiction. Anyone surmising that this might actually be going on is … well happily entitled to their own opinions! They are your own opinions aren’t they? Well of course they are, Right? And just so you know I’m not biased, News reporters are people too!
~ Thanks for dropping by,
Penny
Posted by Penny L Howe on May 25, 2013 in Artistic Expression, I believe, Sharing Thoughts, Why - The Inspired Word, Why I blog, Why I care, Why I laugh, Why I write
Tags: boosting ratings, broadcasting, commentary, emotions, fiction, humor, influence, men, news, news media, rating, satire, statistics, the world, the written word, women