It’s an old saying, that someone wears many hats. Not one we use much anymore.

Perhaps we should.

In today’s world, so many of us are unhappy with who or what we are, and we don’t know what to do about it.

Perhaps we just need to put on another hat. Try something different, be someone different.

Actors use costumes to change roles, we shouldn’t we? Is it any less valid if we do it?

I think not. Look at Police Officers, Firefighters, Doctors … Try to imagine them acting that way at home all the time. You know they don’t.  They all put on costumes and become different people when they go to work.

We can’t we put on costumes when we go home? Become someone we want to be, act in a way that makes us happy.

We don’t even need a whole costume.

Sometimes all it takes is a hat….

We all  have these fantasies about how romantic something is. A moonlit beach. A secluded swimming pool. A private waterfall.

Sometimes we even manage to arrange to get to one of the coveted spots, whiling away hours imagining what it will be like once we get there.

Oh, the Romance! How wonderful it will be!

But the romance is in us. If we don’t bring it to those places, those places can’t bring it out in us.

Then those places can be worse than a ‘regular’ place.

There is nothing romantic about a lonely beach in the moonlight. A person swimming solo under the waterfalls. Midnight laps, alone, in a swimming pool.

The most romantic things of all, are those that are the most lonely—experienced when you’re with someone you love…

Sometimes, when we go looking for treasure, we find it. It’s just not always what we were looking for.

Sometimes it’s better.

The trick is to have an open mind and recognize a treasure when we find it.

And to be brave and smart enough not to be stymied by the chest itself.

Sadness comes from within, not from without.

The world doesn’t feel, doesn’t care.

We do.

The moon looks down upon upon us, but truly, it is blind. It does not see, does not care, does not think of us.

How could it? How many times would its heart have been broken by now? Even the happy endings have endings.

After a couple of billion endings, the moon wouldn’t be interested any more.

The sun sets whether we want it to or not, and brings an end to our best days and our worst indifferently. Then it rises and forces a new day upon us.

The stars twinkle merrily in the sky at night. Or do they? Perhaps they twinkle coldly.

It’s all in how we see it, how we perceive it, how we color our world.

The deepest sadness comes from within, for there is no sadness without.

But the deepest sadness comes from the place where the deepest happiness bubbles up from. For there is no happiness without either, only within.

When you look at the cold moon, you can choose to look at a lover’s moon instead.

When you watch the sun sink into the dark, you can choose to see it as the beginning of the night, not the end of the day.

When the stars twinkle down upon you, it is your happiness that makes them sparkle.

Leave the sadness where it lies, it can’t come out into the world anyway. It doesn’t exist out here, only within you.