"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
What has happened to the happy days? Why are so many living for their future happiness and not in the NOW?
As we all storm through life at full speed we are not taking time to be happy in the now. How can we be when we are not taking ‘timeout’ to embrace life as it is NOW.
I too used to rally through life juggling a career and being a mum, always a hundred and one things that I had to do and not enough time to do them. But then I STOPPED!.........I realised that there was one thing wrong with my last sentence....’had’, I never ‘had’ to do anything, it was me who chose to do it all. It was me who chose to live my life at full speed so then I decided that it would be me who was going to be the one who pulled the brakes and slowed things down. I have since had more children and I am so happy being a mum to my four children and writing, I have stopped chasing happiness and started living it!!
Everyones ideal of a ‘Happy Day’ is their very own. Some of us may share similar ideals and when we come together magic happens. But primarily experiencing happy days are personal and happen because of a number of choices that we have instilled in our lives, ensuring that we do have more happy than sad days.
Simple Things
By lowering our expectations and appreciating things that we have the opportunity to do more often in the now, rather than things we may have in the future, we can only become more happier. For me being grateful for the simple things in life make me happy. Having a cuppa and a laugh with friends can be a wonderful way to be happy. Appreciating the joy that my family is also makes me happy. What simple things that you have NOW make you happy?
I connected with the quote below as my true happiness came from feeling deep love and the ability to share it:
“As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.”- Sharon Salzberg
There are many people in the world who hold others responsible for their happiness. Being married, a son/daughter, a great friend, a child - or whoever we push our desire to be happy on, we must acknowledge that we are the only person who can make ourselves happy!!!!
"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."- Barbara de Angelis
All in all our days can be as happy as we choose them to be. We all will experience challenges that set us back at times, but if we are being set back from a place of happiness within then we wont fall so far and it will be easier to return to that wonderful tranquility again.
The best gift that you can give to yourself is the gift of happiness. Smile and let your inner happiness spread to others.Why noy start today?
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