debbyski says: "That leads me to the next way--fix your life. If you have things keeping you down--do everything you can to fight against it, to break free from it! If you don't like your friends, leave your friends. Find new friends. If you have an addiction--break it. If you hate the way things are going--make new goings. If you don't like your job, quit and find a new one. Even if you think you can't do anything--with the drive, anybody can do anything. There is this homeless man who sells bottled water down a busy street--I really love that guy. He posts posters up all along the street, saying great things like "Homeless, but not hopeless"--and when you look at him--you can just tell. He's a happy, striving guy, striving for better things. If he can do it--I'm sure you can." "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain."Emily Dickinson You don't get happiness when you get a few things--happiness has very little, if not nothing, to do with material possessions.True. Knowing this is the first step. Nelson Mandela comes to mind. Not that I am saying he was happy during his captivity, but that his midset kept him free. Our mind is our greatest adversary or asset depending on how we use it. Like so many big words, 'happiness' has become worn out and lost its soul. It's become largely something that is bought and sold, consumed and chased after to the disappearing horizons. There is a lot of happiness and laughter in conemporary society but little Joy. The poor man selling water seems to have it. Emily Dickinson, reclusive spinster and gloomy ponderer of death, and pitiable, seems to have had it. Joy is something which is deeper than happiness as it is mainly understood, the Joy of being here at all, being happy with the way the universe is. ".....homeless but not hopeless"..just wonderful! hats off to the human spirit! well said, debbyski! To a lot of the oldies around here, happiness is waking up. (Those suffering needlessly, have the opposite attitude) Happiness is best when it is born in simple expectations. Happiness Happens Excellent clip. Constant blaming, bitching, complaining and not taking responsibility for our own lives and predicaments, to the point where we have to over dramatize, distort and deceive in order to make "points" to diminish, demean, and accuse others without real facts, is really a blockage to our OWN happiness. Especially when we operate behind a facade of brotherly caring and "humanitarian" concerns but seething anger and ugliness is what truly lies behind. Great clip, Debbyski. Happiness will never be tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. The simple question remains What is it about tomorrow that means I can be happier than I am today? The difference can be as simple as a point of view. The future is beyond our sight and we are not prophets, very often disappointed optimists. We can be happy with what we've got, because we have so much. Having been is hospital a bit people go on as though it is a trial, but whenever I've been there, no matter how bad I've been, there have been many other people who would put what I would call pain and suffering in the shade. There are things that seem far worse than death, which we generally bring upon ourselves, but when people are told... Now, that seems the elusive one generally in the west. Some will also feign mastery of "happiness today" to mask underachievement or just not planning for their own future. Staying in the now for happiness, though,.... I hear you. Constant blaming, bitching, complaining and not taking responsibilityIf you are speaking about one who uses their own unhappiness to personally attack others then of course I would agree with you Davoz. If you are speaking about those who speak out against injustice then I could see why you are offe... davboz is right on... there's a lot of the former that you described, debbyski, that's being supposedly portrayed as the latter, usually for all the wrong reasons. |
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