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My own miss on the money today. Also my miss on previous relationships that were focused on things other than the complete package. Watching the parade of affluent and fit women and men across this store is a lesson in preferences, lifestyle, and what different groups of us consider beautiful. Here’s what I’ve taken away from this experience in relationship to my relationships and desire for the next long-term relationship.
- Fit is both an attitude and a lifestyle choice.
- Cosmetic enhancements generate freakish smiles and unlikely buoyant breasts and puffy cheeks.
- The natural beauties don’t prance as much, they still do. (Do they have self-awareness?)
- The media has given us grossly exaggerated features that look boring over and over and over.
- Frosted hair and pooched lips and big boobs won’t make you look younger or more beautiful.
- How you engage with the world is more attractive than your physical form.
- Joy is the magic that lifts someone’s aura of beauty and spreads to others.
I stay joyful. I am fit and content. Even in this role I hold a sense of self apart from the cashier that you see. I am here. I am present. I am working on a lot of creative ideas in my mind that keep me boyant on a 100 degree day in the parking lot herding shopping carts. I’ve got my music on. I’ve got my attitude at the proper altitude. And even making unsustaining wages I am singing and whistling about my day.
It’s not a mind trick or mindset. It’s a way of life. Find the gratitude in everything, even the shitty job. Enjoy the people, the experience. Learn. Listen. Pay attention to yourself, your energy, and your focus. I don’t day dream at work, I write stories, I compose music in my mind, and I give up my worry about money at the moment, as I know change is coming. When you take great action, the universe responds.
I am living this process in my single dating life as well. I won’t try and push the river any more. I am living my best life, showing up in the places I want to be and sharing my joy. I’m even showing up in the places I don’t want to be with joy. In this way I am not hunting for a new partner, but anticipating their arrival in my life, along my journey, doing something they also love so we can do it together.
Namasté.
Today I’m in the checkout line looking for your joy.
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The hope I see in others
becomes the hope I have for myself,
my life, and my own journey.
– The Happy Cashier
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