Why Cozy?

I’m not going to post a lot of personal stuff on this profile but I did want to write something to get it out of my head and it does closely relate to embracing #CozyShit.

I’ve always had “mental issues” as most of us do- fighting depression and general unhappiness. My mind just works different- I always go to worse case and my mind is just set up to wait for the bad to happen; it’s not something I can change.

If my wife goes out of town for a Dr. appt. and I call and she doesn’t answer- I don’t freak out because I’m controlling or think she is cheating- I freak out because my mind tells me she’s dead- no other options. I’ve always been this way and people who don’t know us very well may see it different but that is what it is- same goes for my kid. I don’t think his phone is dead, he forgot his phone, he is in class…nope…he’s dead.

Trust me- if I could change my mind going in that direction constantly, I would- it’s exhausting.

I’m set up to view life as simply what you do between disasters. Happiness is NOT guaranteed but pain, suffering and heartache is; I can’t promise you that something good will ever happen to you again but I CAN promise something bad will- and that is why I started embracing #CozyShit in the first place.

I’ve tried to live daily, in the moment- doing what makes me happy and truly understanding that everything comes to an end.

I go to sleep nightly understanding that it may be the last time I ever fall asleep next to the person I love- because one day, it will be…and when that day comes, I don’t want to regret not taking advantage of it while I could.

I have become fully aware that every single thing I do, daily, could be the last time I ever do that and it eventually will be, so I enjoy it more.

My new motto has become “Life is Short, Do What You Enjoy” and it can’t get any more simpler or cozy than that statement.

I have been way happier this year and, while it always seems that time flies, I can say it doesn’t seem as fast to me because I do things I love daily- and I do them “in the moment”. I focus on enjoying them, taking them in and embracing every single moment.

Anything in this world can be considered “cozy” if you enjoy it and it makes you happy- embrace ALL of that.

Time gets away from you and you go about your normal day and then, tragedy hits, and you wish you had done a specific thing more…DO IT NOW so that you won’t have those regrets. I can’t force that enough.

I am taking every single opportunity I get to embrace the moment and make it as cozy as I can.

I’ve figured out how to take my screwed up thought process and turn it into a positive- to embrace the way my mind works and to use it to force me to treat each moment like it will soon end- because it will.

Many people already know that and many people never will…thankfully, I figured it out at 47.

Life is short.

Do what you enjoy.

Embrace #CozyShit

~~~~~sh/\rky~~~~~