Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Joy Overcoming

I've been reflecting a lot lately - on life, my blog, depression, friends, meaning.

It comes to this:

You can be on the side of negative energy, or you can be with the positive energy. It's really that simple. Today I've seen some stuff online - injustice, pettiness, callousness - that made me feel physically ill with its ugliness.

And I've seen pure, raw beauty. People opening their hearts through their words and becoming a connection point for others.

We all have joys and hardships. But which will we choose to highlight?

Phillipa over at Green Ink took a terrible sorrow and used it to write a luminous, love-filled post that is a testament to everything beautiful in life. She is the kind of person I want to know, and an example of the energy I want to put into this world.

Because, as her post demonstrates, we are all connected in ways that we don't even understand.