When Your Grateful Life is Great & When You Share It, It's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

OK I said, I'd comment every day on fortune of day...today I'm kind of double dipping because I started late and feeling a little tired but have to say when I read this one, I felt a little like Sally Fields but instead of they like me, they really like me...I felt like, they see me, they really see me!!!  Oh wait I forgot to remind you of the fortune.  This love fortune is they love me because I am genuinely generous.  And I have to say as a person who spent most of her youth trying to pretend to be what others expected to me, I find the genuine part really refreshing.  Actually when I was younger I thought others looked happier than me so if I pretended to be like them (fake it until you make it), I too would be happy.  Guess what that didn't work.

Sowly but surely with a lot of personal introspection and reflection, I worked my ass off at shedding the masks I was wearing.  And as part of the introspection and reflection, I took a lot of woo woo spiritual classes.   In those classes, I found that some people that were all gooey and sweet, which felt incredibly disingenuous to me.  However, everyone else seemed to like them.  To be honest those people gave me a tooth ache and almost put me into diabetic shock.  But I was scared that others would not like my tarter and spicier version of spirituality which in the end was far more honest.  So I'm glad that my genuineness is appreciated.

I also don't believe in telling people things that I don't believe to be true.  I also don't believe in casting pearls before swine, so I won't be overly effusive if I know the walls are to thick to penetrate.  So I am discerning but I know that people don't express their gratitude and appreciation for all the gifts we receive frequently enough.  And to quote, Jill Taylor Bolton who wrote the amazing book, Stroke of Insight, when your grateful life is great.  That is true but I believe it takes one more step. you need to be not only grateful you need to express it.  When you express it, it is exponentiate the cause and effect impact of your gratitude out into the universe which provides the reciprocity.  And in expressing it your being generous to those that you are grateful for and it doesn't even cost you anything.  Last I heard words were free.  Personally I do like buying people gifts that make me think of them because it just feels good but a compliment or sharing an insight is priceless to the recipient.  Plus, we assume that people know how we feel but most of us our not mind readers.  You know what they say about assumptions...and I think more people see themselves differently than others so when you share your appreciation it's generally more appreciated than not.  Take it from a person who has 355 love fortunes (any many other loving bday cards)/

And this morning I said I would be with this intention.  Just so happens I headed to card store to make sure I am able to express that gratitude to my birthday guests who rocked my world in the love that they shared.  So before heading home I met some friends for dinner.  I had to go through Grand Central.  The Heart Art and they sell these hearts.

Felt in sync with the loving life theme but after taking this picture, I found this one

You can't read it too clearly but it says Gratitude, our theme.  Would have been a real mind fuck if it said genuine gratitude but pretty damn close and there is nothing wrong with faking it until you make it since after all practice makes perfect.