Moods
How responsible do you think individuals are for their own moods or mindset? I mean, can a person really control what sort of mood they are in? Can you force yourself out of a bad mood because you know it is destructive to the people around you? I think the answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. Change that - I think the answer is NO. You can act like you are in a better mood, but are you really in a better mood? We have little control sometimes...our brain chemicals are too strng to be forced into submission. But how we act upon our moods is under our own control. It's so hard, though! The hardest thing on earth (OK, maybe in the top-10) is toact beyond and above your mood. I have yet to master that technique. I tend to be an open book - what I am, I act. Not so good in most circumstances! I need to become a better actress in a lot of ways.
It's hard to be cheerful without sunshine. Heck, even if the sun was shining today (which is isn't and won't be for days) I couldn't see it in my windowless workplace. I am doing an experiment with a small plant...seeing if even with water and nutrients will it grow or die without any natural sunlight? The weird thiing is so far it is actually thriving. This might prove my whole theory wrong about us needing sunlight to survive. I'll have to come up with another theory!
