December 24, 2025

Happy Insight - Ep. 434

3 minutes

Happy Insight comes from facing what you may be suppressing,

And realizing that it doesn’t have to steal away your sense of calm,

If you can take a look at your own reactions that may need addressing,

Then you can defuse whatever may eventually turn into a ticking time bomb.

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Ep. 434 - Happy Insight

We begin as always

with the Happy Creed.

We believe in Happy,

in Balance and Growth,

of being Mindful and Grateful,

Compassionate and Understanding.

Yowza

Haha

My Happy Friends!

When something unexpected happens how do you react?

Do you explode with anger or do you break down and cry?

Whatever was suppressed is what needs to be unpacked,

To unlock and release the hidden pain for you to identify.

Before I had any comprehension or self-control, I used to raise hell,

I once screamed at my boss to get my stuff he’d locked in the store,

But he just looked at me and said, “not if you’re going to yell,”

And then walked away leaving me alone and fuming outside the door.

My dad used to yell a lot and there I was doing the same damn thing,

It didn’t feel good, it didn’t feel powerful, it just felt mean and wrong,

I tried to blame everyone else, but it was entirely my own downswing

I vowed to myself that I would learn how to become quietly strong.

Then, years later, I had a boss who liked to yell, and I got my chance,

At first, I tried to meet his every need to give him no excuse to get mad,

But he still found a way to get upset at some random circumstance,

He screamed at me in front of others who ran away when things got bad.

So, I went into his office, shut the door and told him he couldn’t do that,

I didn’t so much as raise my voice, I said I didn’t care what I had done

There was no excuse for that kind of anger and abuse, this wasn’t combat,

This was office work and whatever it was could be fixed without a hit-and-run.

And I stayed there talking to him for forty-five minutes in a very even tone,

I asked him if he’d ever tried anger management to learn how to cope,

He eventually apologized and I went back to my desk--no longer a war zone,

For we had come to an understanding--did he ever yell at me again? Nope.

Happy Insight comes from facing what you may be suppressing,

And realizing that it doesn’t have to steal away your sense of calm,

If you can take a look at your own reactions that may need addressing,

Then you can defuse whatever may eventually turn into a ticking time bomb.

Haha

Yowza

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By Geoffrey Bennett Ulrich

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