Joy in Little Things

From the website www.truth1.org

"Some people have low thresholds for excitement. That is to say, nearly anything excites them or gets them high. They are easy to please or excite. Watch a child some time. Small children are very easy to entertain or please. Small things are very entertaining or amusing. They can be happy just getting pushed on a swing or some silly behavior you might engage in. And their expressions are so much more extreme, too. They really get excited or laugh, squeal, scream, yell, cry, etc."

"Adults become more reserved, more muted, more deadened. They are much harder to excite or get expressions from. They are not as easy to please. It takes a lot more to excite or please them and they will not react as strongly as kids do. They have what we might call a much higher threshold for excitement."

"I think part of the problem is that as we grow, we allow the world to hurt us and kill our joy of small simple things. Before we realize it, we start demanding the greatest of expectations for everything. (Tyler- This is releveant in our society today because we have so many forms of entertainment... TV, Computer, Books, etc. that we forget how to entertain ourselves, and we adopt the belief that all adults should act this way... HOW BORING DONT LET SOCIETY STEAL YOUR FUN!)

"A get together is not enough any more. Eating out is not big enough. Sex with our partners is not enough. Entertaining and playing with chidlren and seeing their joy is not enough. We might get a new car but the joy soon wears off. No matter what we do or what we buy or get, we are never happy; it is never enough. We have a definite problem, don't we?"

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Solution:
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This is me speaking again. Ok, so anyway, as we get more mature, we feel like we have to act a certain way... From my experience adults are SO boring sometimes. Have you ever watched them at a get together? They just sit there, and talk about boring things like work, the weather, school, whatever. Sometimes they play card games. Honestly, how boring... where did the magic go? We have conformed to society's expectations, and forgot how to entertain ourselves. I think we should sometimes act a little goofy, and try to retain, the mystery of life, and the magic of our childhood. Our hopes and dreams, our desires for the future. Whatever. We should not allow ourselves to be *dullitized*(TM) hehe. Joy can be easily found in every day life, you just got to look for it. This guy at work Tim is so anal about stuff being clean and perfect, and stuff has to be done a certain way. But then at the same time he is a goofy nutcase who is pretty weird. Hes still sometimes acts like a kid, and still pulls of being a mature, responsible adult and is 32 years old! I mean if TIM can do it we can do it right? HEH why not!

Here is a simple exercise I made up for you, go outside run around your house once, and scream where are the mutated badgers from space?!!! ARHHHH THERE IN MY PAAAAAAANTS! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!!!

If anyone you know ask you what you are doing say you wouldn't understand you have ben Dullitized! And walk away laughing! Enjoy.