The Key to a Happy Life
Breaking News, I figured it out, all of it, life, happiness, everything … ready??
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember what you now have is amongst the things you had once only hoped for.”
Some may think this stupid or corny, others will appreciate it for a brief moment, maybe think about it beyond the hour after they read this post. One maybe two if my readership is high that day will consider this into the week and maybe take heed of it beyond that. We are so focused on what others have. What we don’t have and what else we should have. Be happy with what you have, be content in your current place. That is not to say that we should not strive for more, to be better, to improve. It is to say however that do not lose the moment or not appreciate where you are because you are constantly trying to be somewhere else. Where you are right now is where at one point you aspired to be. Where you are right now was a goal, perhaps still is a goal. Why not be happy in that moment and in that accomplishment instead of always contsantly striving for something else?
I am strange in a way I think that I truly am content in myself and my place. I am happy in my life, I have a wonderful husband the person I always wanted. I hated dating, HATED IT. I wanted to be “done” I wanted to find that person and start my life and I did. I own a house which is awesome, it has some problems and some things that need to be fixed, but owning a house is not a sprint it is a marathon, it is a relationship built over decades until you and the home both sort of resemble each other. I have a child, a healthy, bright, never sleeping, always running beautiful child. I have a good job, not a glamorous job, or a high paying job but a good job. I have two pets that barely tolerate me, my husband, our child or each other, but they are ours and I love them. I have all the wonderful things in the world what else could I possibly expect?
So today it is going to be in the 60’s, I am going to work for my allotted 7.5 hours, I am going to pick up my son, bring our dog for a walk, make dinner, play, put him to bed, sit in my living room and go to bed happy because this is what I had once only hoped for.
