Health & Fitness
What I Finally Learned from Those Whos Down in Whoville
Last year while watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" for the first time I finally understood its meaning.
As a kid I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas! with suspicion as cynicism set in early. My joy then came from the things I had and the presents I received, so I couldn't see how those Whos in Whoville could be happy when the Grinch stole their physical artifacts of Christmas.
Last year I watched it and for the first time I really got it like a bolt of lightening. And when I did, I asked myself, "So that's what gratitude looks like?" I cried having never known gratitude before. I guess in that moment I saw what the Grinch saw, and my heart grew 3 sizes too.
Insights like that do change your brain wiring. Oh, it may appear the wiring goes back to what it was, but underneath a foundation for new wiring is set. Sometimes such insights are so explosive that you can't go back, something I have experienced. But most of the time rewiring happens little by little, insight by insight, day by day, year by year.
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Happy New Year! May you be wired for joy in 2012.