Emotional Clean-Out

Hi everybody, (anybody?!). I wanted to write about something that I find to be a total necessity in life. We all get upset, we all hold our grudges, but at the end of the day...what are they worth? Someone once said that for every minute you're angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness. That's a true statement. Life is so short, and it shouldn't be wasted letting other people get to you, or even with you trying to get to other people.

Grudges are understandable sometimes: someone does something and it hurts you or upsets you. It's only natural to form some ill feelings towards that person. But really, why? What good will it do you to feel bad about them? It won't. I learned this hard way, but I am sure glad that I learned it at some point. You can be as mean or as mad or as bitter as you want, but you're just hurting yourself.

One of the most freeing things I've come to find is to just let go, to decompress. To take a step back from life, take a deep breath and put everything into prospective. What good will it do you to be mad at someone? It's a waste of energy, and that person is a human too. We need to love each other and care for each other no matter how hard it may be at times.

Another important lesson I've learned? The second you just forgive and forget and focus on being sweet and living your life, whatever problem you had goes away. The person you're in a tiff with realizes that it was also a big mistake, a big misunderstanding. Sweetness kills hatred, my friends. It's a tough lesson to learn, but once you learn it I promise that you will find more happiness than you've ever known. This is going from the ex-queen of grudge holding too, but the minute I realized that keeping ill feelings towards someone just makes me sick myself? Well, let's just say I've definitely come along way. Sweetness is the way to go. It makes you happy and anyone else around you happy, and that is the key to happiness. Spread the happy, it catches on. Try it for a week, see how it goes. Till then...happy Saturday :)

XO, Rosie

First Posting

There's nothing like a first, right? First everythings are always the greatest: their so pure and simple, and so guiltless. I love the first everythings: they are a first try to something bigger and better.

For anyone who follows my other blog, 'As Good As It Gets', I'm going in a different direction with this blog. See, I believe that every person has two sides to them: the grumpy cynical side, and the bubbly optimistic side. Neither is better or worse, but I think it's important to have both so that your personality can play with itself. Who wants someone negative all the time? And likewise, who wants someone giddy all the time? 'As Good As It Gets' is my negative blog - the one about all the things I can't stand, the things I wish people didn't do, etc. It's basically a collection of life peeves for me. However, I'm far from a negative person and I think my other half deserves some credibility! I also have a sweet, tender, loving side that is just as good as my negative one. And this side needed a blog! To write about the good things in life, the happy things, my favorite things, and everything else in between.

I hope to put up pictures of things that make me happy, which I think can make girls everywhere happy as well. I'll post cute sayings, beauty products I know and love, fashion sometimes, baking, really anything. This blog is fair game, for suggestions and anything else happy!

We all need a little something sweet and happy in our day to day lives. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures on this site. I realize (again!) that not a lot of people will see any of this - but to those who do, I hope to inspire you and cheer you up a little bit day by day. After all, what worth does life have if you aren't HAPPY?

XO, Rosie