Happiness In Its Complete Simplicity...

What is happiness? Well ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion and in my experience it is nothing more than a choice, an emotion, a feeling, that we all search so diligently for our whole lives when we never really realize how truly simple it really is. You see, the wonderful thing about happiness is in its simplicity, if it was something that was hard to achieve it wouldn't really be a good emotion, it wouldn't make us feel good it would just be a battle. So why do we always make it so complicated? Why do we make achieving happiness such a chore, when all we really have to do is make the simple choice. When we try so hard to find this hidden feeling we take away the purity of it, we ruin its true purpose. Happiness is not something we have to search high and low for, it's not something we have to eventually achieve or wait for.. No, it is just a state of mind, a choice. Will you be happy or sad? That's it. Though at certain times in our lives it may seem complicated, the effortlessness of complete happiness in this life never changes. The only thing that changes is a persons mind set. We get into our heads and the messiness of this world, we let all of the bad overwhelm us, and we forget that what we tend to fight so hard for every day starting from the moment we wake up is sitting right in front of our eyes. We often trick ourselves into thinking this thing, this emotion, this choice is close to impossible to achieve, or we sit and tell ourselves our happiness depends on others or at least partially depends on others.. But trust me when I say it is absolutely never out of reach, and it is completely up to the individual person and not the others around them.

 I have had many times where I have struggled to maintain happiness, sometimes I just feel this heavy fog come into my life and it just presses down on me and begins to suffocate me. I know we have all had this feeling at certain points, it isn't always avoidable, some of us experience it more than others, and some more intensely as well.. Though these emotions are just plainly a mind set, nothing is perfect and we will all slip and lose sight of certain things at some points, the trick is just bouncing back. The things that usually cause this dreaded fog that makes us lose sight of our path are noticing new or old flaws about ourselves, not accomplishing something as quickly or as well as we were planning on, losing a loved one, the feeling of loneliness or abandonment and etc... These things cause us to change our state of mind, and this causes us to focus more on the bad until that one bad thing becomes so prominent that we see and feel nothing but the bad and there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.

 You see, in our lives we feel all of the different emotions so sharply that they can even sometimes stifle our other senses. No one, at least no one that I know of is immune to this, though some may pretend to be. So when one very specific thing upsets us we sit and focus on it so hard that the pain from it becomes shockingly overwhelming, then that problem no matter how big or small it is is suddenly amplified by ten and we continue to focus on it and focus on it... And from there it all just spirals out of control... After that we start to see all sorts of other bad things, and we create this mental list of all the things going wrong and that list just keeps growing and growing until it just feels so huge and overwhelming and you just snap, and all of the good that is out there in the world just becomes invisible to you. At this point, not matter how hard it may feel, you have to make a choice.. Will you be happy or not? When you make your choice stand firm in it, do not waiver, and feel it and choose it with your entire mind, body, and soul. Only then can you have the purity of true happiness. It comes from you, and only you. Not anyone around you, or any events in your life, just you. Only you have this amazing power to choose how you feel.

 We were put on this planet to learn, to live, to experience and to be happy. There may be bumps or curves in our roads but you can always return to the one you want to be on. I wish everyone on this planet happiness, no matter who you are, where you are, or what you're going through just know that you deserve to be happy...

"Fall down 7 times, get up 8..."

That is my little message and insight for the day.. Have a good one, and enjoy the sunshine :)