It Is Easy To Be Happy When Everything Is Going Well...
I was meditating on the thought that "it is easy to be happy when everything is going well but what about when things are not?
When I am full, I am plenty happy but when I am hungry it is a different story.
When I am comfortable with my weight, then I am happy but when I am overweight I look in the mirror and I do not like the person that I see.
When my money is alright, then so am I but when my money is funny there is nothing to laugh about.
When I am in a loving relationship, the world is mine but when I am single my world has fallen.
Do you get the point that I am making?
Joy vs. Happiness
There is a difference between being Happy and having Joy. Happiness is temporal and it is based on emotions, conditions and circumstances whereas Joy is a mental state of being.
You can have a joyful life once you make up your mind that you are going to be joyful regardless of what is going on in your life. After you make up your mind then you have to work at maintaining your Joy.
I had a conversation with a teenaged girl and during the course of our conversation she said to me "I love myself."
The next thing that she did was showed me the flap under her arms and then she shook each of her arms until the flap waved back and forth in the air.
She then said, I know that I am fat but I still love myself. I just need to lose weight.
Lesson Learned
I learned a valuable lesson from a teenaged girl. The lesson that I learned is that despite it all, I am going to have joy.
My joy is based on my attitude and not on if things are going good or bad.
My joy is based on my attitude and it is not conditioned on if I am full of if I am hungry.
My joy is based on my attitude and it has nothing to do with my weight. I am joyful when my weight is normal and when I am under or over weight.
My joy is based on my attitude and not on the amount of money that I have or do not have.
I am joyful when I am in a relationship and I am joyful when I am not because my joy is not something that is based on my relationship status.
Do you get the picture?
More Useful Tips:
Control Your Emotions
Be Slow To Anger
Pay Attention To Your Thoughts
1 comment:
Loved your post. Too many people look without instead of looking within in to find what they want. They let society tell them what is acceptable and to think that is the path for EVERYONE.
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