Happy thoughts = happy moments ~ or do they!?

Last week I said to a friend, "think positive and good things will happen"... she told me that was crap because otherwise life would be all rosy and wonderful.  She is right.  Total crap.

I handle and manage my fair share of crap.  I deal with more "stuff" than most. Life is not rosy and wonderful all the time.  But it is not horrible either.  My life is just a series of weird events, one after then next.  I never wake up hoping for or expecting unusual things to happen to me.  I don't put negative energy out into the world.  I don't.  And yet the most random and weirdly peculiar things happen to me ~ often.  

No matter what kind of positive vibes I put forth, strange still happens.  I have given it much thought and what I think is that I am like a magnet for odd, Velcro for the different and attractant for the most unusual.  The vibes I put out into the world are that WEIRD STUFF WILL HAPPEN.  I accept that as normal and that being said, it is my normal.  Weird becomes the normal of my family.  

I am surprised sometimes by the things that happen.  I can not make this stuff up ~ because it is just that far reaching.  My husband, while surprised, is generally not that surprised by the occurrences that transpire.  I drag him into the disastrous happenings and we often just try to laugh and not make a fuss about it.

Really though... it is exhausting sometimes managing the things that happen.  I can laugh and make light but often in that moment it is stressful.  I imagine I have anxiety and high blood pressure at times.  And sometimes flat out fear.  Yet I manage the situations and do my best to live in the moments.  It is in these moments that I learn something about my strength, courage, resilience and ability to laugh.  I learn to think on my toes, rely on others and show my child how to manage unknown, unplanned things.

My friend is right though.  My thoughts do not lead to good things happening.  Good things happen because I work my butt off to make it happen!  Weird and random things don't happen because of my thoughts.  They happen ~ period.  And some of us are just more fortunate than others and we get the lions share of WEIRD!