Defy reality and create happiness!

   Do you ever feel like it’s you against the world? Or you against apparent reality? No matter what you do, all the rules seem to be against you? Or no one sees things as you do?
   Twyla Tharp’s quote here reminds me of a time when my husband David, a lawyer, had received a horrid decision in a court case. The judge, for some very crazy reason, decided that David’s client did not have to pay him for the sixty-plus hours he’d put into their

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bankruptcy case.
   This astounded me, and David, that I judge could do this. But to David, he had no recourse. After all, in his future as legal work, there was always a chance that he’d find himself in this judge’s courtroom again.
   You can probably imagine how upsetting this must have been for us. We were both very unhappy!
   As hopeless as it all seemed this was a perfect job for The Happiness Path! We were going to defy apparent reality.
   So every day we imagined David getting paid. Every day we imagined his client loving the work he did for them. Weeks passed. We didn’t give up. We kept our imaginations working to see what we wanted, even though we
had no idea how the situation could possibly turn around.
   And then . . .
. . . it did. David’s client wanted him for another issue they were facing. They trusted him. They liked his work, his work ethic, and his work style. They wrote David a check for the amount the judge said they didn’t have to pay, and then hired him to do further work.
   Oh, boy, did that make us feel happy!
   And yes, creating can be an act of defiance. Just because all the rules and apparent reality suggest
only one thing is possible, don’t believe that. Decide what you want.    Make sure what you want helps others.
   Defiantly create it!
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