Found out something very important the last few weeks … You’ve got to WANT to be happy.
I’ve been beating myself up about a lot of things at work recently making the situation I am in harder on myself. I am a good worker I work hard, I try hard to do the best I can I try to learn all the time. I never want to stop learning there is always something new that can be discovered in music, art, science … relationships in general. I’ve been in a lot of pain recently. Not because I wanted to be I assure you (and by pain I mean mental).
Life is life, things are things … to beat yourself up over a situation you have no control over is negative and only hurts you. I don’t need anymore pain. My life has been lucky since I was born. I almost did not make it out of childhood, but I persisted and I am here. I have seen a lot and experienced a lot … these days are beautiful. Who am I to complain? Who am I to cheapen my own life by focusing on it’s faults instead of the successes?
You’ve got to want to be happy. And I don’t mean a little … You’ve got to want it like oxygen, like water, and it has to come from you. If you’re basing you happiness on someone else it will not last and it will be hollow. You are strong enough to support your own happiness, you don’t need someone to do that for you.
We are all warriors here, these lives are our battle ground, and you are fighting for your life every day. It IS desperate … these things are happening NOW … The worse sin? Complacence.
Are you awake??? Can you take a minute and not lie to yourself? Are you strong enough to see the truth about you? It is a challenge every day …
Let a man with no sin cast the first stone.
But I am not stone casting here. I never am. I’m trying to wake up and see, because all I’ve ever wanted was an explanation for the way things are. It seems sometimes this is the worst sin … Questions are sometimes the scariest part, and more often than not have no explanation. This makes me happy. This is a work on happiness.



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