Irritation, Transformation, & Appreciation

My mind works in strange and often irrational ways sometimes. I frequently overthink things and this gets in the way of enjoying a lot of good things in front of me, like a good song or a good story.

You know those stories and songs where someone doesn’t appreciate something good until it’s gone? I hate them and their catchy tunes. I know I’m supposed to walk away appreciating the good in my life, but I walk away with such mixed emotions.

First I’m pissed off at those people who “paved Paradise to put up a parking lot.” That’s rude and disrespectful. Then I’m trying to figure out who those people are, because they suck and they deserve to know it.

I ultimately blame it on society’s inability to have anything nice and its complete disrespect for, and destruction of, the natural world.

Then I’m self shaming for being a part of that society. Now all of this anger and shame can’t be productive.

Maybe I’ll transform that negativity, that irritation into something more constructive and positive. Like, I don’t know, appreciation or something. ;)