happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
The Unknown
We all come to that place in our lives where we've hit a wall. A place of insecurities, questions, confusion, decisions, and the opinions of the world. When we feel lost and confused on what to do and where to go when we become discouraged and depressed, not knowing what will come next. The next step seems like a mountain climb away. Whether it's that we can't make up our minds or doors just aren't opening like we had thought. For me, it's a little bit of both. At times I think that maybe I'm expecting way too much from life, and I'm not putting in enough to get the results I want. I also feel like I'm working my ass off for almost nothing. I'm considering moving away and starting fresh somewhere new. A place where I only know two people. A place where I get to learn everything it's about. I can get to know the people, places, and culture that surrounds my new home. I'm at that place where I need new insight and perspective. I need a breath of fresh yet unfamiliar air. Air that hasn't hit my face yet. Maybe it will hit home. I might feel something I have never felt before. It could be the realization that this is what I needed, a new beginning. It could hit me that this wasn't for me, that my calling is back in the old, but I just needed a break from the regularity that I've grown bored of. I won't know until I change something. Change can be scary, but they always say, if something scares you and excites you at the same time, do it! What could go wrong? I could realize it wasn't the right decision, but I had fun in the process. I don't think the change has to be for a specific reason. I believe if I feel I will enjoy a change in my life that could benefit me why wouldn't I jump on the opportunity. I am at the point in my life that I need to set goals for my future, and for me, the two things that I want in my life are God and happiness. Can I achieve those by leaving where I am right now, absolutely. This isn't saying I'm not happy where I am now, because I am. I just feel that there is more somewhere else for me. There is a door somewhere I haven't gone, and I won't be able to find it if I don't go. In life were supposed to take risks, and risks that can be for our gain. I truly believe this change could be a huge gain for my life. In ways of finance, faith, and finding. I need to find a part of myself that is in the motion. The motion of growth. I feel stuck here not because of being unable to determine what I want to do, but because I feel routine. I understand I can change what I do here and now but it's different. I need something else that I don't know how to put into words. I almost need to be away from the people that I know. Not because of anything they have done but because of the familiarity. I'm tired of being familiar with my surroundings. Where I am right now, I am beyond comfortable and familiar with everything that encompasses my life. I want to feel uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Can I find that here? Sure. Even so, I will be close to what I know to be comfortable and the urge to go back will begin to grow. I need to be away from what I am so attached to. If it's not an easy fix to go back to my contentment I will have to learn to grow from the risk, unsteadiness, and unfamiliarity of my new life. I will pray and pray till all my words are gone about this, trust me. As of right now, I feel the need to change in order to grow.
By Carlene Mengler7 years ago in Motivation
Life Is Worth It
Every day we get up in the attempt to improve our lives, in order to achieve greater things or to work hard towards our goals, but there are days we question our existence, days in which we want to hide in a corner and days that we never want to remember. What happens when those days come? What happens when all we want is to end our suffering? We have no one to go to, no one to talk to, what do we do?
By Nawal Tariq Shah7 years ago in Motivation
Self-Confidence
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who never allowed fear to cloud her actions and lived her childhood to the fullest. Her environment was filled to the brink with encouraging and supportive elders. As she began to grow older, her world suddenly came crashing down. Comments about her skin color and her hair were thrown at her and none of them were positive. There were such a few selections of representation around her that it was almost impossible for her to relate. Society became the evil stepmother, often out to get to her and almost every time succeeding. It didn't make it easy for her to love the fact that her skin color is equivalent to chocolate and the beautiful and spectacular fact that everything about her is a mixture of her mother and father. All thoughts running through her mind were negative and it was revealed in her composure and the way she spoke about her appearance in public. Self-consciousness engulfed her like a flame ready to destroy every part of her; without giving her a chance to even tame it or put it out.
By Savannah 7 years ago in Motivation
How to Be Happier
Everyone gets to a point where he or she finds themselves looking for ways to be happy. One thing that is important to know is happiness is an emotion. Duh, but it is impossible for someone to be permanently happy, every minute, hour, and second of every day. Just like any other emotion, your happiness can go up and down. What we all wish to achieve is being content. Satisfactory is a fantastic feeling. Satisfactory is when one day you may not be having the most magnificent Monday, but overall, you are content with your life.
By nashai catlett7 years ago in Motivation
A Letter to My Emotions
Dear Happiness, You are easier said than done. My brain seems to think that you don’t exist in me anymore, but I feel you at least once or twice everyday, more so if I’m lucky. I feel you in a song, a gaze from a loved one, the whispers in the trees, or a long car ride full of different sounds and people. The best time that I feel you is in my chest. Bursting through me like the morning sun, breaking down my walls and carrying every piece of me to the promise that life will be good from here on out. Though both of us know that our journey together can end at any second, day or night, we carry on. Bringing joy to those who we love so dearly. Smiles and laughs, dancing through our faces as we glide along the streets with our friends feeling the chains of sorrow slip away. It’s so simple. It’s so easy to forget what I felt yesterday when I have you. You’re here with me now as I write this. Eagerly trying to remember everything you make me feel so that I don’t forget. You’re so special. You bring souls together, creating love and joy. Happiness, you’re in everything. But sadness, you are too.
By Ihi ♡7 years ago in Motivation
A 24-Year-Old Child
As I jump off the swing in the public park, I observe the nostalgic feeling that filled my adult heart, the very heart that once was a child. It has been years since I stepped on a playground, knowing I can’t fit in some sections and the idea of going to the slide made my stomach do a nervous churn. The swings, seesaw, and jungle bars made me notice how stiff my body had become over the years of idle exercise. My body did not feel like a child, but the little trill I received from something so simple made me smile a lot.
By Sarah Blain7 years ago in Motivation
Living with an Audience
We want to be liked. We want to be admired. We want people to think highly of us. We want to be more attractive, have more money, more friends, more likes. We want to be wanted. We crave validation more than we realize. Because of this, we find ourselves stuck in this loop of comparing strangers' curated little moments, glimpses of their lives. with the entirety of our own. But that isn’t fair. Our lives are messy, ugly, imperfect. Full of misfires, wasted opportunities, overreactions, and things we wish we could do over. But these glimpses into other people’s lives, these snapshots of our most well-lit cinematic moments, are what we tell the world we are.
By Cameron Dominguez7 years ago in Motivation
Good Things Jar 2018
The idea came from something I saw on the interwebs near the end of 2017. The idea is to keep a jar (any old jar will do) and pop in a note once a week about something good that happened. The final intention would be to open up the jar on the last day of the year and read about everything we had done.
By Sapphire Ravenclaw7 years ago in Motivation
I Was Trapped in My Own Life
I work 80 hours a week. That’s right—16 hour shifts, an average of one day off a month, and a constantly rotating schedule that has left me in the last six months feeling often that my life is not under my control. I live in a constant state of exhaustion, dehydration, and chronic pain that I haven’t been able to get to the doctor to find the cause of. On multiple occasions as an absolute zombie on my fourth 16-hour day in a row, hands shaking holding my coffee (the only thing that keeps the physical exhaustion at bay) I have walked down the street towards the T and genuinely considered stepping out into traffic. I’m not suicidal—but the thought is always there. “If I die, this will be over. I don’t have to do this anymore.”
By Iris7 years ago in Motivation
