by Mikalyn

Created on: January 30, 2010

                This world is not black and white; there are light shades and shadows, there are dark areas and the wonderful miracle of color. Our eyes are designed to interpret a range of visual effects and shades of stimulation. Our ears can hear beyond the visual and that seems even more ghostly when one thinks about the sounds that we’ve heard in our lives. Some we may want to forget while others we may crave until the day we die. What I’m getting at is that being ‘happy’ doesn’t come in a black and white version. In order to be happy we need to understand what it means to ‘be.’

                Your state of ‘be-ing’ is directly related to how happy you feel. What’s that old saying, “to be or not to be, that really is the question.” How do you want be? Who do you want to be? Where do you want to be? These are the questions that really usher us into a state of well being where happiness is simply a consequence.

                No one can really achieve a perpetual state of happiness for happiness is not a state of being. Our lives are unpredictable; they’re a string of moments related only by the fact that you are experiencing and influencing them. One must achieve a healthy state of being in order to assure that most of these moments will be happy ones. The process toward this is not easy but with all things, “when the need for change is greater than the need to stay the same, change will come.” When you are ready for change always begin with the smallest of things and work your way up.

                Daily habits, how do you want to be? Pick some that disappoint you and begin to cut them out. In the long run, your state of being will improve. In words it is a simple concept, in action it is much more difficult but nowhere near impossible. Remember your heart and make a resolution to be a better person. Whatever ‘better person’ may mean to you: whether it means giving more, or saying no when it’s needed, making a long put off sacrifice for someone else or just doing something completely selfless.

               

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