Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Happiness is an inside job

 Sometimes, it's hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. The advantage of a bad memory is that, one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. I have few scars to show for happiness and so I learn so little from peace. To be strong that nothing can disturb my inner peace of mind. Some to talk about life, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet. I wanna make the people surround me feel that there is something beautiful in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

I wanna forget all the mistakes of the past I've done through and focus on to the greater achievements of the future and to wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature I meet with a smile. I wanna give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to critic about others. Thus, not be too huge for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. I wanna think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world - not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is mostly on my side for so long, as I'm being true to the best that is in me. 

While they say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for - Life is too short to waste my time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value me. Spending my life with people who make me smile, laugh, and feel loved.  And yet, if I cannot change all the people around me, I can change the people who I choose to be around.

Happiness is the consequence of my personal effort. I wanna fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even could travel around the world looking for it. I might have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of my own blessings. And when I have achieved a state of happiness, I don't ever wanna become lax about maintaining it. I wanna make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

It's been my experience that I can nearly enjoy things if I make up my mind firmly that I will. And I always try to find the opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. I wanna learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Hoping the more I feed my mind with positive thoughts, the more I can attract great things into my life.

“I have a few things that I wished for but all I want in this world is you. I wanna see you and talk about anything - I've always wanted the two of us to begin with everything from the beginning.” - DF