Who would have ever thought that How I Met Your Mother’s most hysterical character would be so wise?
His go-to line: “it’s going to be legendary!”
I was feeling kind of down, and one of my best friends quoted him today to cheer me up. Which is just positive reinforcement of the idea that I am who I want to be. He said “Barney said something that I really agree with:
When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.”
Which is, really, all you ever need to keep in mind. We can all get bogged down by unhappy things – and that’s okay. But it’s also important to remember that you can change that. You are in charge of how you deal with your emotions. Most of the time, we can’t stop our feeling a certain way – but we can try and focus on how we get by.
Abraham Lincoln got it right, too.
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
So here’s to making ourselves happy, creating our own luck, and always remembering that we have to believe it to achieve it (my personal mantra, most of the time).
So back to being legendary. I have to believe I am. I have to embody it. I have to just be everything I want to be. I have to let it seep into my soul and intertwine with my DNA and just live it.
I think we all do.