What a day to start your life.
Today is your day – you are going to be amazing at this. All you have to do is believe.
Believe in yourself. Believe in the goodness around you. Find your people – people who bing your joy. Find something that you love to do and to it will all your heart when you can.
You may not be able to make money off what you love to do – but find a job to help you finance your joy.
Finance your joy. Find your joy. Finance your joy.
Remove people from your life who do not bring you joy. Limit your contact with those people as much as you can. Don’t put up with others peoples shit.
Other peoples shit is their issue. Why would they put it on you? Go ahead and forget about them.
Surround yourself with the people that make you happy. Surround yourself with the people who make you think. Surround yourself with the people who make you smile when you see them across the street unexpectedly.
You need to learn to be comfortable being alone. You are going to spend the most time in this world with yourself. Learn to be comfortable with yourself and being alone. Not lonely, but being alone. Learn to love things that you can do by yourself – reading, listening to music, yard work, gardening, making, creating. Learn to learn.
Learn to learn.
Learning is what will give you unlimited abilities in this world Learning is the key to the rest of your life. “I don’t know how to” is the start of a journey. Be the journey – take time to learn – even if just a little bit. Take the time to learn how to cook, to learn how to clean. To learn how to send a proper email.
Take the time to fit into the expectation before you add the curious quality to that expectation.
Learn to be with yourself. Learn to be happy. Learn to be curious.
We have to relearn these things. We use to know them to some degree. When we were young we knew happiness and joy. When we were young we could spend hours with ourselves and our imagination. When we were young we were insatiably curious.
Be curious. Be curious about other people. Be curious about why something happens. Be curious and be ready to travel the path of that curiosity and find out some “whys?” – but beware.
Beware – being curious leads to more curiosity. Being curious leads to new questions. Being curious leads to more things that you want to know, need to know, need to discover.
The journey is more important than the destination.
Curiosity , creativity and the road less traveled.
Travel the less road because you can. Where are you headed? Don’t worry about that – it will come to you on your way. If you know the general direction you can take many different paths to get to that location or end goal. Do you want to go the fastest route? Then ignore everything I have said.
Don’t agree with me – that is fine – be yourself, find your own way, travel your own path, do all you can to make yourself happy.
Happy solves a lot.
Happy is the sunrise.
Happy is the sunset.
Happy is touching a tree.
Happy is seeing a butterfly.
Happy is sun on my face.
Happy is the sparkle in my partners syses.
Happy is the smell after a rainstorm.
Happy is the rainstorm.
Happy is the warmth of a fire.
Happy is the hug.
Happy is a good book.
Happy is.
Happy is.
Happy is.
Know yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself
Know that you have to know yourself before you can know others. Help yourself. Know that you have to help yourself before you can help others. Make yourself happy. Know how much time you need to spend alone. Know where your energy comes from. Know that you can make yourself happy.
Do not…
These are dangerous words – do not – because people often shut down when they are told what not to do. I don’t use them lightly – this is for the best of you. This is for my future readers.
Do not make other peoples validation of you and your actions the only source of your happiness. This will lead to misery. We can never make everyone else happy. And in the process of trying to make others happy with our actions we lose our way to our own happiness.
If you need other people to love you to feel complete – this is normal human emotion. But if you need other people to love you to feel complete – you are going to have a hard life. A life of doing for others while you give up on yourself and your dreams. If you try to please others it will take over your life more than you can know right now…or maybe you do know – maybe you know that you have struggled and now you know this is the reason why.
Learn to love yourself. Learn to put yourself first. Find the people who bring you joy.
Find your curious self again. Discover new things. Watch the strange movie. Read the book that you want to Life is too short to be stuck in other peoples expectations and mantras.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that by reading this piece of writing that you have solved anything.
These are just words on a page. These are just words that if read will soon be forgotten.
You need to do. Do the work. Find the joy. Source the happiness. Be the one that you want to be. Create your life in your place to make it happy for you.
Set your horizon line of happiness so that most of your life will be happy.
Will there be sadness – yes.
Will there be death – yes.
Will there be setbacks – yes.
Will you always be happy – no.
But you can learn to return to the happy state faster.
Life is all about the journey – not the destination. Remember that we are all destined for the grave – that is the destination – you need to make the journey count.