Life is Always Sunshine and Rainbows (Except You've Been Taught to Think Differently
Apr 13, 2026
It was a wet and gloomy day and I just finished with the morning school drop-off. There definitely was no sunshine and rainbows outside, but despite the weather I was in a really great mood.
Then I got to thinking about a limiting belief that a lot of people have….
“Life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows.” And sure, when we dig a little deeper one might actually think this, live like this, or believe this, and then this belief becomes their reality. That life is meant to be hard, that things aren’t great, and that life is a struggle.
But let me be very clear and real here because there’s always a flip side. In the end you simply need to decide what side you’re going to live on.
In the “real world” life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. There’s nothing fun about being lied to, abused, taken advantage of, cheated on, or stolen from.
There’s nothing great about being hurt, being bullied, losing a child or having a loved one you care deeply about die suddenly.
There’s nothing fun about getting back on your feet after a setback, a cancer diagnosis, a financial crisis, or dealing with a difficult time in your life. Fuck no. All of that is hard.
There’s nothing easy about doing the work to lose 100 pounds or exercising after you’ve been injured or parked on your ass for far too long.
It can be dark, scary, terrifying, rage-filled, and you can be completely consumed with hate, grief, frustration, cynicism, and darkness. Just a big pile of one big shit storm. Usually one right after the other.
So sure… Eventually one would start to believe “Life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows”… and you’re right. It’s not.
But there’s another kind of life.
A different kind of life that rests on the other side of all of that and from my own personal experience that life is always sunshine and rainbows. It’s always full of love, happiness, positivity, joy, compassion, excitement, purpose, and enthusiasm. Not perfect by any means, but beautiful, peaceful, and serene.
That’s the kind of life I’m talking about here.
The life that is full of living colour even when the outside world around you might be dark, wet and gloomy. The life that is free of pain, suffering, and struggle.
The promise land or heaven on earth, so to speak. That is the life that we all strive for. That is the life we all hope to achieve. That is the life we deserve. That is the life that truly exists on the other side of all of your dark days or hopeless nights, and that’s the life that is so readily available to every single one of us in the present moment.
The only problem is that most people aren’t present and most people haven't let go or forgiven. They’re stuck on the shit that took their sunshine away or stole their joy, as if that's still someone else’s fault. Even though it's been 5, 10, or 35 fucking years ago.
And sure…
It might have been someone else’s fault. Someone could have screwed you over royally but in the end that’s their issue to worry about now and not yours.
Your only job is to allow the sunshine and rainbows to show up and exist in your life and keep on shining regardless of what happened. Your only job is to shine so fucking brightly so that other people can look up to you and say…
Damn. I want some of that too.
And when they ask where you got it from, simply smile, and say…
Oh. I’ve had it within me all along, except I just had to sit with myself and sift through a shit ton of darkness to finally see the light.
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Hey, I’m Lindsay Rose Martin
I consider myself to be a kick-ass spiritual medium with extraordinary intuitive gifts and psychic abilities that have the power to completely transform lives.
Through my connection to the spirit world, I guide people to awaken their highest potential, discover true love on the other side, and step fully into lives of vibrant health, happiness, purpose, inner peace, and personal freedom.
