I have found throughout my life that I do not have the power to make everyone feel bad. They have their own lives to focus on & not mine. When I feel bad, they may acknowledge that I am feeling bad, but they do not feel bad because I am feeling bad. I also have come to realize that when others feel bad, there is no way that I can make them feel that much better either. I can try to help but the fact is that everyone is really responsible for their own happiness & their own feeling bad. There is no way that I as one person has the power to make everyone I am around be happy or joke around.

The life experiences that I have gone through and am going through are what effect how I feel not how someone else around me is feeling. My happiness & joking around depends on how I am dealing with what is going on in my life.

It may help to take the pressure off of you to realize that everyone has their own personal lives that they are living & that is effecting their happiness. That has more power over them than any one else that is outside of their personal life.

Relax a bit & take the pressure off of yourself......we out here have so much going on "in our own lives" that cause anxiety attacks, depression, flashbacks, triggers, & whatever else is hitting us.

Debbie