So many times in life I think, as soon as “this happens” I will be happier, or as soon as “this is over” my life will be better. Truth be told, my life will never be easier, graduating school, finishing an assignment, after going on a vacation; these things will not make my life better. Life is as good as it’s going to get right now. Whether or not I choose to make it good, is up to me. Nothing is going to make life easier tomorrow, or next week, month year, etc. There is always going to be something in our life that is stressful, something that going to make us sad, something that brings us down.
Good and bad things happen every day to everyone everywhere. You get a raise, your grandpa dies, you fall in love, someone breaks your heart, you get stuck in traffic, or you get to take a nap. It’s what we choose to do with what is thrown our way or what we choose to focus on that shapes our lives. It’s a conscious choice to be happy or to think that your life is miserable- dynamo of volition. We have the ability to embrace what our lives have come to, and if we are not happy with the way it is, we have the ability to change it.
Being happy and satisfied does not depend on what happens in our life, because enviably we are not going to be as skinny as we want to be, rich as we want to be, successful as we want to be. We will never live up to our own expectations. We just have to be happy with what we have, what we have accomplished and what we have to look forward to.
