Paris: Day 22

Today, in "The Happiness Project" (okay I'm tired of typing that out, from now on it shall be referred to as THP, thanks for your cooperation), I was reading about spirituality.

The funny thing was that she spoke of spirituality and didn't necessarily play favorites on her religion. She mentioned a few spiritual heros of differing religions, but I think that's okay and, honestly, pretty smart. I learn a lot about my own beliefs by seeing others.

In fact, I learn a lot about myself (especially what I am not, or at least hope not to be) by looking to others. There is a girl on the program, maybe several, that use complaining as conversation. Gosh I hope I'm not that girl.

And I honestly feel bad for them. How hard it must be to live life with such a negative output. The worst part is, that I have had many friends in the past like that. HAD is a great word to use. People like that tend to disrespect more positive people, seeing them as naive or immature. I feel like I've experienced enough pain in my life to be considered "weathered" and I'm a decent student, not an idiot. This is something else she touched on, positive people being put down by negative ones. It was if she read my thoughts.

I have felt disrespected so many times because people think I have it easy or completely disregard any opinion I may have just because I try and stay positive. I will have you know, it is a lot harder to stay positive (especially with people like that around) than it is to be negative. It is ALWAYS harder than you think for someone to continue to be easy going and seemingly happy. Not that they are faking it, but happiness takes skill and effort.

I'm not the happiness person on the planet or the greatest example of a positive life, but it really hit home when she talked about being called stupid or an air head for thinking that way. I can name several people who have thought the same of me. It is hard enough to try and stay positive all the time, I'll be damned if I keep someone around that only makes it harder.

Speaking of happiness, we headed to Disneyland Paris again for the day. This time we went to Hollywood Studios first since it always closes earlier. We did the backlot tour (nothing notable, except "RC" is present), Tower Of Terror (much more thrilling), Crush Coaster (hands down my favorite ride in Paris), and Rock N Roller Coaster (not the same theme of winning passes, just "hey aerosmith decided to design a coaster....lame!).

It was amazing to listen as every single cast member was bilingual in French and English and ocassionally others. I can't imagine working like that everything, repeating everything twice in 2 different languages.

After it closed, we hit up Disneyland Park, and started with Space Mountain 2 (no known story line was given, but it was definitely more thrilling than the Orlando one), Nautilus (basically a neat little walk through), Star Tours (crap compared to Orlando's new one), Its a small World (almost the same as Orlando), and Haunted Mansion (it is called phantom manor, a lot of the same concepts).

We ended the night with the parade, like spectromagic but not as good, and the fireworks (so lame compared to Wishes).

I'm exhausted to say the least, but ready to go back and finish it all on Sunday!

Well, I have GOT to get some sleep.

Much love.