Act upon that happy impulse…

 

A few months back, in a second hand store I spotted a papier-mâché sculpture of a spotted dog. It was scratching its ear and it made me smile. I didn’t think twice about buying it.

It wasn’t expensive but now, before I buy anything, I ask myself how will it function in my house and do really I love it?

I loved this pup. It was whimsical and it makes me smile every single time I look at it. I guess that turned out to be the function of it, though at the time I bought it because it just made me smile. I consider that money well spent.

I honor the people that bring a sense of whimsy into my world. Most of them I haven’t met.

Some of them place an unexpected object in their front garden that catches my eye and makes me smile.

Some of them pair an unexpected element with an outfit that causes me to stop, smile and wonder why I don’t attempt something like that!

And isn’t whimsy always the unexpected? Something done on a whim that creates magic in the world is always meaningful to someone, somehow and somewhere.

Generally, children are excellent at being whimsical. They will not think more than twice about using the unexpected to elicit a feeling of happiness within themselves.

One morning they might choose to wear two different colored socks or place a blanket around their neck as a cape, and happily declare that as their outfit for the day.

The lucky ones have parents that do not discourage their whimsy and with a smile, send them on their merry way.

Many older adults come to the decision that they will pick up where they left off in childhood and add an unexpected whimsical element in their outfit, in their home or in their garden. The other day I saw an elderly lady wearing a silk flower in her hair.

“Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it’s all about having fun.” ~ Candace Havens

And some people never lose their sense of whimsy. They are the ones society has
deemed eccentric and odd. Sometimes, we turn our back on them and yet they continue to be who they be. They push at the walls of our comfort zones, as if to remind us that life wasn’t meant to be so serious.

At some stage we can choose, again, that we really don’t care what other people think!

So, I have concluded that being whimsical has nothing to do with any outside force. It is driven purely by an internal desire to be happy. And, if someone else is happy as a result of it, well, that is just icing on the cake for them.

And isn’t that a wonderful thing dear ones? Isn’t it wonderful that you are gifted by someone else’s’ sense of what makes them happy?

How often do you sit back and second-guess, third guess and fourth guess the impulses that would create happiness for you?

We see it all the time. We see it with Linda who will not add an unexpected whimsical element to her outfit-except if it is a costume occasion and even then like many of you it isn’t truly whimsical because it is thought out far ahead.

Your true nature doesn’t think so far ahead. It wants to respond to the energies that are at play. Your very being sees what surrounds it and is willing to respond and to offer something up that will bring about happiness and comfort in ways that you cannot even imagine.

You think it is always about you and it is and it is also about everything else that surrounds you. You are not an island. Your energies affect and create other energies that will offer gifts to the whole of mankind.

Why, we ask you, would you choose to second-guess yourself? For when you think and think again, that is exactly what you are doing all the time, second-guessing yourself.

So if you have an impulse that makes you feel happy then we highly encourage you to act upon that. Do the unexpected.

Break out in song or dance when you feel like it. Wear two different colored socks or even shoes! There is a reason for those impulses and you cannot always know what they are about. Maybe the doing will cause someone to strike up a conversation with you that will uplift the both of you.

Maybe that one conversation will change the whole world, as you know it.

You never know. But you will know. We promise you that when you join us you will
discover exactly what it was all about.

You will cry with joy-we promise-at the beauty that you were and are. You will wonder why you dismissed your fanciful notions as not worthy of being expressed.

You will know that you were not separate from the whole and that you are and always have been part of the whole. You will celebrate.

And we will celebrate with you.

It will be a fine party!

Go For The Joy
Linda and The Group