Thursday, April 21, 2011

Happiness

Everything is temporary, there is no forever. Enjoy what you have now.

I feel like happiness is like a delusion for most of us. We are elated by what we see in front of us, without knowledge of what is on the other side of that moment. It's a bubble that will always come back down and can be popped at any moment by any number of things; none of which you can prevent or see coming most times. "Life happens" and i feel that true happiness can never be reached so long as we view it as just the peaks and not the valies too.

Everything is temporary...
        but with an ending, there is a new beginning. If I am a person that truly believes that, i will be able to find joy in that moment of ending; because i know it's an opportunity for a new moment of life. One part should not be better than the other.

In the end we are who we are. No matter who we try to be or wish we were. I am left with me, I always am. Love alone isn’t enough some times.

Things change. People come and go. They change us, but in the end, I am who i originally was. My passions and desires can be suppressed or exploited, but they will always be there; the same.

We all try and force life to much sometimes. We hold on tight when life is good, or we find something we love- a job, house, friend. We spend money we don't have on things that make us excited and fight to make payments in order to keep them. An expensive illusion of happiness.

We plead with a man or woman to be what we want them to be so we can keep them in our illusion of a love life. When they may not be what we want at all! In pretending there is nothing wrong, fighting to hold on to what is already lost, or trying to change what is already apart of a person, we drag out the natural movement of life.

   This life is not what so many of us think it is. It is beautiful, but was already in place when we arrived. We can not change it. We will only begin to understand if we really want to see.
if something is real, it is at its core. The rock bottom. If you keep digging, whatever you find at the bottom is its true existence.

Life simply dusts us off. Sometimes takes chunks at a time away from this outside view of ourselves we have. Underneath the surface, that is who we are.
When the dust settles... are we honest? Selfless? Do we walk through this life and treat people like the lasting souls they are? With respect? Do we love?

are we happy?

I hope we are.
I've met some of the most fulfilled people on the road. The ones that have nothing. They enjoy a good meal and dry place to stay, finer things, sure. But at the core of there being, they are smiling in the rain, making music with their voices, loving whoever is in front of them.
I enjoy the ups and downs of my life. I have become rich in stories and freedom by knowing what really is.

I have so much more to learn.