This experience we call 'life' isn’t easy.
Life doesn’t always hand out rainbows and sunshine. Often it delivers hailstorms
and acid rain. Actually, life downright sucks sometimes. People can be shitty,
and the government routinely fails us. Our bodies don’t always hold up the way
we’d like. People we love sometimes leave, or get sick and die, while there isn’t a damned
thing we can do about it. How can anyone be truly happy on this spinning ball
of misery we call Earth?Before us all lay two paths. Path A and Path B.
Path A: I let circumstances and outside forces determine my perception
of life. Empower others to control my emotional journey. Permit the economy,
the weather, or other people to affect my level of contentment. Really there
are a million different factors I might allow to govern my happiness. I call Path A the Play-dough Path, because it can be shaped and molded by many factors.  |
| What's your path? |
Every person selects
their path, traversing one or the other at any given time. Sometimes, I jump
from one path to the other, like a kid playing hopscotch, barefooted on
scalding cement in the summer sun.
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ReplyDeleteAnita! Thank you so much for sharing this. I really appreciate it. <3 Have a lovely week.
DeleteRandomly stumbled across this post while traversing your blog for editing tips, and it really spoke to me. So many people (including myself) spend years on Path A, not okay, but not realising it's not the world but our own attitudes hindering our happiness, and, if we grasp that, at a loss as to how to amend ourselves.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is easier to find that we realise; simply by pushing away all the angst and being 'content with [one's] own existence at any given time' we can regain what we've lost. Even questioning the simplicity of such a gesture is a form of contention. Path B reminds me of the point of meditation: deliberately rejecting all the busyness and tedium of life, and accepting it in the moment for the moment.
Sorry to expound at such length. Thank you for writing this; I feel compelled to save the link and share it with the myriad people I know who'd so benefit. To echo you, today I choose Happiness :-)
Lillian, you are so right. And I am very happy this post spoke to you. Thank you for sharing it with others. <3
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