In my experience, it is better to limit your celebration when things are going well in your life. Why?
Because nature has its way of robbing happiness away. If you get too happy...the next thing in line for you is..well, some kind of sadder event. hahaha
If you earn a salary and you get too happy about it, you won't save a single penny. Gagastusin mo lahat yun.
If someone tells you that you look good, and then you reacted with extreme happiness, it's easy for the other person to say, JOKE LANG.
So I think the right kind of happiness is "controlled happiness". lol. It is also called "delayed gratification".
Limit or delay your celebration if something good happens to you. Place your successes in a box until a quieter time (as the Dave Matthews song goes.)
There's another side to this, and it is sorrow.
Remember that if you're experiencing too much sorrow right now...keep in mind that the next thing in store for you is joy, happiness, success, triumph.
It's true.
I'm starting to think that this is what the Bible means when it is written, "Sorrow is better than laughter". I think sorrow speaks of good things ahead. But present laughter (I mean, too much of it) leads to future grief.
So I think the pattern of nature is this:
Cry before you laugh.
Fail before you succeed.
Pain before gain.
Practice before perfection.
Work before play.
Rejection before approval.
I've found that if you turn this pattern around, in most cases you end up losing in the end in some way.
Kaya pala si FPJ pabugbog muna. hahaha.
I mean, I admit this is not true 100% of the time. There are exceptions. But if you're experiencing minor successes right now......don't give your class A celebration yet. There are greater things ahead of you!
Good day.
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