{"id":2155,"date":"2026-01-11T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:25:03","slug":"why-cozy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/why-cozy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cozy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m not going to post a lot of personal stuff on here but I did want to write something to get it out of my head and it does closely relate to embracing #CozyShit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

If my wife goes out of <\/a>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust me- if I could change my mind going in that direction constantly, I would- it’s exhausting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything in this world can be considered “cozy” if you enjoy it and it makes you happy- embrace ALL of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am taking every single opportunity I get to embrace the moment and make it as cozy as I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people already know that and many people never will…thankfully, I figured it out at 47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do what you enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embrace #CozyShit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~~~~sh\/\\rky~~~~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to post a lot of personal stuff on here 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharkysworld.com\/SWO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}