Why the tears? One of my dearest friend's mamma had passed away after we departed on the cruise, so I cried for my friend. I cried for her mom who I've known since my friend and I met in high school at age 15; and I cried for the fact that I wasn't there to hug my friend and provide emotional support during the funeral. I cried further because I hadn't been there either two years ago when her father died (once again I was out of the country).

There I was in the middle of the sea, also feeling emotional about my ailing, aged parents and their unhealthy conditions. We had left town with mamma in the hospital after a surgical procedure and papa with his dementia. (And, of course, good ole Catholic guilt accompanied the tears.)

In a span of a few minutes, a few hours, days or months, we might feel sad, happy, jealous, annoyed, disgusted, then happy again. (And various other moods and emotions in between!) It is okay to change mood channels. Let's not, however, hang in the ugly too long. We must find the pretty again.

And just because sad sneaks in (or whatever downer emotion we allow in), doesn't mean we have to DECIDE that our entire lives are 100% unhappy and crappy. Let's remind ourselves - feelings are temporary ... and changeable.
As Cher's father Cosmo says in my favorite movie Moonstruck: "Everything is temporary!"
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We go with the negative feeling for a time, and we move on. If we hang there in the ugly and don't seek to be in the pretty, it compounds into more ugly, more negativity, more days of down, more crappy feelings, and continues on a downward spiral. And that's no fun.

When you "get in a mood," snippeteers ... whether it's blue, down, hopeless, ugly, jealous, weepy, angry, envious, wistful ... I wish for you to soon find the pretty again. Look around - it is definitely there.