We keep staring at what we want to have in 5 or 10 years. We keep thinking of who we want to be in 5 or 10 years. Which is good! But we can’t forget that we’ll always have that. We’ll always have that idea of who we want to be, 5 or 10 years from now. But this very moment, this very precious moment, shouldn’t be forgotten. We’re preparing ourselves to be that person, now. We should make the best of ‘now’ because ‘now’ doesn’t come back after this. Don’t spend your whole life thinking about the future. Because there will be a day that your future you will think back about the you right now and regret not making the most of today. We need to find balance. We need to work towards our goals for the future but we should also make today the best day of our lives. And tomorrow we should do the exact same thing. Being happy is not even that hard. I’ve spend years and years thinking about what it would be like to be happy. I kept thinking that it would come with a great relationship or good friends. Well, it didn’t. Nothing made me happy. Not happy enough at least. I could have fun; have the time of my life even but it didn’t make me happy. One day I just looked at myself and told myself I wanted to be happy and I was going to make sure I would. So I started working on myself. I started praying more. I tried to become more positive and I became happy. I saw an old friend a few weeks ago and she heard that me and my boyfriend broke up. She knew, from earlier conversations that I wanted to marry him. When she asked me how I was doing, I couldn’t help but smile. Not because I was happy that we broke up but because I chose to do what was going to make me happy in the long run. Of course, the whole situation sucks and I’m really, really hurt but I know that in a few years I’ll still know this was the right decision. The reason I told you that is because a few years ago, before I started Straight Thinking, every little thing that happened in my life, would hold me back and would make me depressed. I didn’t know what it was like to not be depressed. I just had a few good days. Sometimes it were just a few minutes or an hour or two. Even though I’m still hurt, I’m able to put the pain aside and focus on what’s good in my life. I can keep thinking about the day I won’t be hurting anymore and how happy I’ll feel then, but if I don’t work on being happy now, I won’t be happy then. Being happy comes from within. If you don’t work on being happy, if you don’t treat yourself the way you should, nothing’s going to change. Take yourself on a date. Even if it might make you uncomfortable to sit at a table in a restaurant by yourself. Fight through it. Because at the end of the day, you only have yourself. At night, when the whole world is asleep, you only have yourself. Be your own best friend. It will make everything so much easier for you. Making new friends will no longer be a job. Keeping friends will no longer be difficult. If you’re truly happy, if you’re truly happy with yourself, you’ll be able to solve a lot of issues that seemed impossible to solve before. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to enjoy each and every day. Not like it’s your last. No, make plans! Plan your future but keep looking around you instead of straight ahead. The reason I started #MyWeeklySpecial is because I wanted to stop and ‘smell the roses’. Feed yourself with health. – Healthy foods, healthy relationships, healthy entertainment. If it doesn’t make you feel better, let it go and look for something else. I was just thinking about this scripture and I wanted to share it with you. Proverbs 17:22 “A joyful heart is good medicine, …” Please share your thoughts/experiences in the comments or talk to me on social media.
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