How many have thought that they would be happy if they got a bigger house, landed a new job, or found the perfect someone with whom to share their lives?
Every morning when we wake up, we are given a wonderful gift– another day of life– so let’s just make the most of it because no one can do it for us. It’s essential to adopt the right state of mind about happiness and to stop thinking that things out of our control can bring us joy. I believe that happiness is a living emotion and not an expendable luxury. Therefore, we need to commit to making it a personal priority even if it may turn out to be a new behavior for some of us and quite intimidating.
We should be gentle with ourselves because everything would unfold in due time. We should make peace with the knowledge that we can’t have everything we want. We should find happiness in the things we already have, in the friends loving us, in the art we had created. Perhaps today we may not be familiar with this habit, but like anything new, we can learn to be happy. We only have to be willing to pursue happiness.
Daphne du Maurier wrote in Rebecca:
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
Love,
Carmen Monica
Carmen Monica Oprea 