Should all happiness be forgot

...and never thought upon?

Tonight always brings out the worst in people. It's always quite clear that they broke hardy promises to themselves from the year before. "My New Years Resolution will be..." to fully commit to an unachievable goal and feel shit about it for the rest of the year, but don't worry there's always next 1st January to turn that around...

Tonight is always filled with "this year was so shit because of X" "Bring on the New Year everything is gonna be different!" then next new year's eve you claim that the year you're currently in has been the worst ever. Thing is, I reckon people are only remembering bad things that have happened to them recently and it's a well known fact that the human brain focuses on the negative more than positive emotional responses to situations.

So I pose to you my dear friends a mini project. A gift from me to you to see you into the next year with a gusto of Positive Mental Attitude. Something to help you remember all those GOOD things that you have experienced, witnessed and participated in.

This is my "Happy Jar". It's filled with positive experiences that have enriched my life for the better. From silly little things like growing our own vegetables to more sseriously the birth of my Niece. Some notes are reminders of what good things I've done for other people,  including saving someone's life, and what friends and family and strangers have done for me. Some things are just great date nights I've had or starting projects, some projects haven't stuck well as others but it's good for me to remember that process as being a positive thing, to show myself that creativity is worth exploring even if it doesn't go so well.

You can call it whatever you want, use a tin, a money box, a bottle, a box! Whatever you like. 

BUT: the rule is not to read them again until New Year's Eve (or Day depending on festive levels) that way when your feeling the Christmas come-down blues you have something give you a positive boost to the New Year. It'll show you what you CAN achieve and that good things DO happen, whether it's from your own hard ass work or the kind gestures of others or Karma or Force or Deity you believe in exists.

With that, I do, with all my love, wish you a prosperous and satisfactory New Year and this pic; coz we got a puppy this year too:

(Wrapping paper in a box with treats in...cheapest present ever!)