Happy vs Sugarcoated

Good afternoon my dears!

If you follow my posts you are going to see me advocating good attitudes and focusing on the positive frequently. Now, it isn't uncommon for me to be irritated with people who seem to have similar attitudes.

"In MY world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"

That pretty much sums up those people who irritate me. Thanks Katie, but reality is a lot harsher than that. We all know at least one "Katie". What then differentiates between the Katies of the world from other people with seemingly unfaltering good attitudes? Its all in the sugar.

Those who sugarcoat the world are living and acting in a state of denial. There are  a lot of negative things in the world. Horrible things happen to wonderful people on a daily basis. There is pain, there is grieving, there is anger, there are tears. This is something all of us need to recognize and not take for granted. For somebody to start looking at the positive side of life does not take away the hurt immediately. To get to a healthy, positive state of mind takes work and practice, and is honestly a huge accomplishment in the world today where there is so much animosity and negativity.

If you take a good look at people who sugarcoat everything, they are a walking piece of irony. Real happiness doesn't need to be sugarcoated. If you think about sugar coating things in a literal sense, you sugarcoat things that don't taste good, such as medicine as Mary Poppins so memorably points out. All the sugar does though is covers up the bad taste. Contrast that to something that actually tastes good. Lets take... cookies for instance! The cookie has sugar in it, but the cookie tastes good as a whole. It isn't coated in sugar to cover up a bad taste. Of course, if you took individual ingredients of the cookie they wouldn't all taste good on their own. But the finished product is delicious no matter what.

The goal here is to make our lives cookies. There are going to be nasty, bitter things in our lives. Remember though that you make it through and overcome these negative things, and that combined with all the positives, life is actually pretty good. Don't lie to yourself or anyone else and pretend that the negative isn't there. It is. But when you make the most of it, things turn out to be pretty sweet.

♥//Brittany