If you had asked me what is happiness years ago, I would
have answered with a list of tangible, material objects, funny life has evolved
and I am asking that same question now to myself and the responses are pretty
simple.
After losing three close relatives to cancer, I am realizing
happiness is being alive and in good health, spending that time with family;
happiness is the accomplishment you feel when you look at your life and even if
there are regrets, it is enough to say and be contented with the journey of
life.
Happiness is that contentment when you are driving and you
know there is no gas in the car and you are at a point when you can’t even buy
gas, but that’s ok, because you are happy that this state is temporary and will
resolve itself very soon.
Happiness is speaking
to a room full of students and you are inspiring them to be greater than
themselves and to achieve and dream big, yet in your mind your figuring out how
to pay your next bill. It is that
happiness that comes from self; realizing that you were born for a
divine purpose and though the challenges are real, you too are destined for
greatness.
Happiness is the journey that has gotten me to the now. It is overcoming the challenges of being a
single mother, Happiness is most definitely the now. Happiness is in the moment of now, happiness is
crying in the shower for three hours because you realized you have come so far
in this journey call life.
With that said let’s explore my six points to unleash inner
happiness.
1.
Family: We all need the feeling of belonging,
whether it is to be a parent or to be nurtured by one. Great family bond and ties offer the sense of
being relevant. Your family unlike
friends, they will remain. Family
teaches compromise and love regardless.
2.
Love: We cannot exist in a world without love,
like hate there’s a place for everything.
Love offers that cushion, when everything seems wrong with the
world. To love shamelessly and to give
love willingly is truly rewarding.
3.
Career:
Invest in your dreams, find and pursue your passion; people who are
driven and focus and are happy with work and career choices are often happy
people, they are not disgruntle with their current employment and wake with a
grudge to work. They are bright and well
balanced.
4.
Spirituality/Religion: This surely is a personal topic like
politics, it is a personal decision. I
do however find that persons who believe in something greater than themselves in
a balance way are often more amicable and happy people. They accentuate the positives and rarely
dwell on the negatives.
5.
Friends: To be loved and accepted by our friends
can be satisfying, it offers that peer acceptance that secretly we all
want. Positive and encouraging friends
can make the journey to happiness and self discovery a pleasant one.
6.
Yourself: This is where the true investment
lies, one can never over invest in self, spend time with self, nurture it, love
it and encourage it. Once self is
appreciated, loving others becomes easier, once self is appreciated then
appreciation of others becomes an easy task.
Find your personal style and brand and improve on it, recreate and
transform yourself, take an inventory of self and discard the attitudes and
belief that no longer serve to grow you.
Each point offers a unique perspective; there are no one
right route to happiness, happiness is a process and a personal journey.
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