The Root of Happiness

Today I relaised how much my feelings towards things in life has changed over time. When your perspectives change and your motives for doing some things are different it can help you to feel a whole lot better about the way your life is. For example I would really love to visit America, but my motives for doing so have developed over time, which has really made that my own. That feeling is my own and that idea is my own as it’s grown from that original thought.

To put it one way, the idea is a seed, and anything can be a seed, anything that might happen to you which makes you stop and think. But what really makes that idea something special is nourishing it and feeding it. Just like how you would water a flower, you feed the idea and mould it to be part of you and make it something which drives you.

Just as that inital idea of going to America has become somthing so much more, a desire to explore and take on every new opportunity. But most importantly it’s made me realise that you only get the most from life when you step outside of your box, because thats the only way you can expand your box until it’s full of all the wonderful things on offer. And thats such a good way to live and it can make you so happy. It’s scary. I’m not going to lie. When I’ve done things I’m unsure of I was terrified but at the end of it I was so glad I had done it. It’s a way to find out the things you love most and a way of opening your eye’s to the world. It’s the root to understanding. And if you make the effort to understand people and accept them for who they are, it will make them feel good but it will also help you to feel good. It’s a win-win situation. And if they are unhappy then you can do what you can to make them feel better just by being there and showing them they are an awesome person.

Enjoying what’s on offer is part of being happy. But you also have to be happy with the person you are. That’s something I learnt the hard way. When you feel like your not enough your not going to want to get out into the world. But when you realise ‘I am very happy with the person I am and I’m pretty damn awesome’ then you can get on with living your life.