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​I’m watching this series, Gilmore Girls, and I’m completely in love with it. Obsessed, even.

One of my favorite characters is Lorelai, and for me it’s the way she’s always joyful. Not because she never gets sad or has bad days, but because she has this magical ability to turn almost anything into a joke. 

Sometimes you genuinely can’t tell whether she’s serious or playfully sarcastic. Even in a life and death moment, trust Lorelai to crack a joke. She practically disarms her problems with humor, and even when she tries to be serious, a joke still sneaks in.

Does that mean Lorelai doesn’t have real issues?

Of course she does, just like everyone else. She simply refuses to become her problems. Meanwhile, many of us do the exact opposite. We turn our struggles into our identity. We wear them around our necks like heavy gold chains.

Dearest reader, I once came across a line that said problems don’t really live in our circumstances, they live in how we see those circumstances.

What exactly are you seeing?

What perspective are you looking from?

In Lorelai’s world, everything has a hint of humor, which helps her navigate life without breaking under its weight.

This is the same idea Mark Manson talks about when he explains that our emotions are not reality, they are just interpretations of reality. And because of that, half of what we think a situation is comes from how we feel about it, not from what it actually is.

Therefore, if the fault is not in our stars(Circumstances) but resides in our perspective of circumstances, then when our emotions cloud this perspective, we are completely lost. Don’t you think?

@favvy_Okwans🖤