happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
How to Be Happier
Everyone gets to a point where he or she finds themselves looking for ways to be happy. One thing that is important to know is happiness is an emotion. Duh, but it is impossible for someone to be permanently happy, every minute, hour, and second of every day. Just like any other emotion, your happiness can go up and down. What we all wish to achieve is being content. Satisfactory is a fantastic feeling. Satisfactory is when one day you may not be having the most magnificent Monday, but overall, you are content with your life.
By nashai catlett7 years ago in Motivation
A Letter to My Emotions
Dear Happiness, You are easier said than done. My brain seems to think that you don’t exist in me anymore, but I feel you at least once or twice everyday, more so if I’m lucky. I feel you in a song, a gaze from a loved one, the whispers in the trees, or a long car ride full of different sounds and people. The best time that I feel you is in my chest. Bursting through me like the morning sun, breaking down my walls and carrying every piece of me to the promise that life will be good from here on out. Though both of us know that our journey together can end at any second, day or night, we carry on. Bringing joy to those who we love so dearly. Smiles and laughs, dancing through our faces as we glide along the streets with our friends feeling the chains of sorrow slip away. It’s so simple. It’s so easy to forget what I felt yesterday when I have you. You’re here with me now as I write this. Eagerly trying to remember everything you make me feel so that I don’t forget. You’re so special. You bring souls together, creating love and joy. Happiness, you’re in everything. But sadness, you are too.
By Ihi ♡7 years ago in Motivation
A 24-Year-Old Child
As I jump off the swing in the public park, I observe the nostalgic feeling that filled my adult heart, the very heart that once was a child. It has been years since I stepped on a playground, knowing I can’t fit in some sections and the idea of going to the slide made my stomach do a nervous churn. The swings, seesaw, and jungle bars made me notice how stiff my body had become over the years of idle exercise. My body did not feel like a child, but the little trill I received from something so simple made me smile a lot.
By Sarah Blain7 years ago in Motivation
Living with an Audience
We want to be liked. We want to be admired. We want people to think highly of us. We want to be more attractive, have more money, more friends, more likes. We want to be wanted. We crave validation more than we realize. Because of this, we find ourselves stuck in this loop of comparing strangers' curated little moments, glimpses of their lives. with the entirety of our own. But that isn’t fair. Our lives are messy, ugly, imperfect. Full of misfires, wasted opportunities, overreactions, and things we wish we could do over. But these glimpses into other people’s lives, these snapshots of our most well-lit cinematic moments, are what we tell the world we are.
By Cameron Dominguez7 years ago in Motivation
Good Things Jar 2018
The idea came from something I saw on the interwebs near the end of 2017. The idea is to keep a jar (any old jar will do) and pop in a note once a week about something good that happened. The final intention would be to open up the jar on the last day of the year and read about everything we had done.
By Sapphire Ravenclaw7 years ago in Motivation
I Was Trapped in My Own Life
I work 80 hours a week. That’s right—16 hour shifts, an average of one day off a month, and a constantly rotating schedule that has left me in the last six months feeling often that my life is not under my control. I live in a constant state of exhaustion, dehydration, and chronic pain that I haven’t been able to get to the doctor to find the cause of. On multiple occasions as an absolute zombie on my fourth 16-hour day in a row, hands shaking holding my coffee (the only thing that keeps the physical exhaustion at bay) I have walked down the street towards the T and genuinely considered stepping out into traffic. I’m not suicidal—but the thought is always there. “If I die, this will be over. I don’t have to do this anymore.”
By Iris7 years ago in Motivation
Am I Adulting on the Right Track?
Do you remember the days when you used to say, “I can’t wait to grow up!” because adults seemed to know what they’re doing all the time? It’s like they always look so confident and poised, knowing exactly what to do and what’s happening around them. They are like the know-it-alls. Those walking dictionaries.
By Sookie Ng7 years ago in Motivation
Beyond the Horizon!
I did my first freefall skydive when I was 18 years old, two instructors latched either side of me and my very own parachute mounted to my back. It was a navigator 200, I knew nothing about it but it was on me now and I had to put my full faith in it to work. This was my AFF level 1, the first step to achieving my skydiving licence and had put me £300 out of pocket. Now for some £300 might seem an insignificant amount of money but for 18-year-old me who had just failed to get into university, worked long hours for little money, and had no real plan for the year ahead, it may as well have been my mortgage. Think how many times you've punched your pin number into the keypad of a card reader or ATM and tell me, how many times did that change your life? That one transaction, that £300 was perhaps the best decision I've ever made. Right here, in this moment, nothing was going to be the same again and as I sat on that aircraft with the door about to open, my life supposedly about to be revolutionised, all I was ready to do was sh*t my pants. The only thing that would be changing that day would be my underwear.
By Eoin Black7 years ago in Motivation
Push, Push, Push
I push, push, and push. I push my body way past my limitations some days and I still feel like I'm 10 steps behind my peers. I don't know what else I can do. I'm trying to continue, merely survive, but I don't know how to keep up in this busy world. No matter what I do, I’m left feeling exhausted and the things I will try are not enough to add up to the things someone else has already done.
By Courtney Frazer7 years ago in Motivation
The Key to Freedom
You see, the desire is to leave. To leave, in a sense, everything: electronics, the pile of unneeded clothing, and the "necessities" that aren't even necessary. The longing is to leave behind the material that is not truly a part of life. The longing is also to part with the places, the people, and the feelings that are no longer needed to live a happy life.
By Ellen Gibson7 years ago in Motivation
