Its a strange thing really, how a persons mood can affect your world. How you can be so happy one minute then the tension rises, their mood strikes and your knocked down from your cloud of happiness and down to the sludge of resentment and hatefulness.
Moods are contagious if you let them be, unhappiness is like a virus and spreads to those around you.
Everyone's lives prove to be difficult, whether it be the young mom with a couple of children who hasn't had a real sleep in months, who has bags under her eyes or spit up on every piece of clothing she own, a housewife feeling neglected from her husband and bitterness building with each passing day, a family crumbling under the financial weight of this world, struggling to keep on top of the monthly expenses, or the top executive whose company rests on his shoulders and if one thing goes wrong he is the one to blame. Everyone is fighting something. Dealing with horrible stress, and always has one problem constantly nagging at them in the back of their minds. However, it depends on how you react, how you adjust, if you fight of if you let it overtake you. Do you do things out of spite, miss out on moments you'd love to be a part of based on principal? Or do you let it slide off your shoulders, and look around to turn things positive, give up the fight to dwell in the happy moments.
Some people need to sit and stir in their despair. They need to feed the emotions in order to feel alive. They do not realize that they tear everyone around them down but they wonder constantly how it seems people pull away. They think, rethink, overthink to a point that they tear themselves apart and feel even worse about themselves. They refuse to seek help or take advice. they have convinced themselves there is no such thing as happiness for them. They have decided their is no real love, no true love. They don't believe in success for their lives. They are always ready to fight, to fight the battle, not the war, the defense is always up and they spread like wildfire and take down anyone they can. Their bitterness, hatefulness, unhappiness is contagious, contagious if not careful.
In times a person can be the happiest person with so much to deal with yet they smile through and know this will not break them. They can be fighting through things and staying positive when they are introduced to a person that is the complete opposite. The old saying opposites attract seems to work in this situation. Happiness is not as contagious as bitterness. It is easier to take away a persons happy mood, exciting times, good moments by introducing your stress, your hardships, your need to display the pain. The problem is not the need to talk, to vent, to cry but rests on the fact that the unhappiness is an everyday occurrence. Something is always wrong, a continuous cycle and a constant circle. The problem rests on the need to feed to emotion of pain instead of fighting for the happiness you could have.
Happiness is contagious but only if you don't let the virus of bitterness overtake you. If you are open to the happiness, it will sting your pride, it will hurt your principals, but you will not care, you will realize the battle of your dignity is at war and you learn to pick your battles, you sift through the bullshit to find the reality of what life can be.
