In this moment.

How to be happy? For me, it's to give and share my life with others. Also, I am learning that being happy means to think of your actions before you engage in them and always choose what will make you and others happy in the long run not in the moment. It's good to have lots of friends that let you practice your ever evolving being with them.


However, what is better than being able to enjoy your own company? Being able to sit in silence and feel ok with things just as they are is a gift. I love the ability to be in silence and just feel good. It's so peaceful. When your mind is quiet so is everything else. The whole Universe is still. However, there is a calm before and after every storm. Remember? The only thing you can count on is that things are ever changing. Eventually another storm will come and I wish that for those moments I could encapsulate the moments of complete comfort and contentment and bottle them up. How many bottles would one need? What would the inside of these bottles look like? Do they have a color? What substance would they resemble? Maybe they would be labelled as "Happy Food", "Time for a nap", "Drink me instead of beer", "Vegas". I see sparking butterflies in jars. The essence of grass and fresh air in bottles. A light blowing wind and sunlight coming from another one. The sounds of wild birds in another. Laughter of my nieces will be somewhere there too. Everyone needs a couple of bottles in their pantry for those moments you forget how ok everything really is. We should try to keep some in the pantry of our consciousness. What would yours look like?


Pain, on the other hand, should never be bottled up. No one needs to save it. If it's bottled up in you somewhere it's time to pour it out and let to go back to where it came from: the past. We can still label the unhappy moments in our lives but see that they are empty of their power. So many people allow the past to hold them hostage. They allow it to color their daily events. The past has no hold on you now. Just be happy with what you have in the moment. I once saw a movie a wonderful idea of how to get rid of unhappiness. Get a cup of water, scream your unhappiness into it then dump it out the window. Let that frustration splatter all over a plant rather than you. I think the plant would appreciate it more anyhow.


Some people say it's a choice to be happy. I think it's more of a choice to not let unhappy moments take over your life. No matter what we will feel unhappy sometimes and you won't be able to help it. That's just human nature. Just don't let it become who you are. It's just like how people let words define who they are. "I'm stubborn", "I can't do that", "I'm unhappy", it can truly become you if you let it define you. Be flexible. If you are aware you have some negative tendencies be conscious about them and don't let them ruin good things that are given to you. We are all happy individuals that have moments of unhappiness mask our true essence. If it weren't so we shouldn't be able to feel incredible for no reason.
Maybe next time you have a shitty day say thanks because without shitty moments we would never know how lucky we are just as is.




Kinda like that. Everything is a blessing in disguise.