The Truth About Happiness
Being happy now or later? The human dilemma, is happiness ever enough? What is the meaning of happiness to you? Is being happy later making you happy now? Like many quotes say:
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching,
and live like it’s heaven on earth.
Or I’ll wait until the kids go to college, when I win the lottery, when I buy my dream house, when I find my true love, when I lose 20 pounds, when I start working out again… Is this dilemma getting in your way of living your purpose in life and be who you really want to be? Wouldn’t be easier to be happy now, so the NOW can make us happy later?
We don’t like to be judged. I think people who judge you are the people who live their lives more unhappily and judging makes them feel better, more empowered. At the end of the day the people who truly love you and know you, those who can read you even before they look at you, will always be there regardless. However being judged hurts, and is something sometimes we can’t help.
People always saw me as a strong woman with the perfect family and the perfect life, and truly I’m tired of it. I’m not perfect, I don’t have a perfect life, I’m not lucky I worked very hard to be where I am now, and I’m not always happy, I have suffer in silence like many of you and I have live my unhappiness with happiness because every time I chose to. In my case I think the fear of disappointing someone was always my biggest deal, and still is. But this is what happiness comes to most of the times, it is a choice. We are ungrateful! We have so much! A beautiful life the Universe gave us to live, and the opportunity to live it in a body, a body regardless how perfect or imperfect it is a body to live our lives in!
Making decisions is never easy. Taking you away from what is comfortable is not easy, but sometimes is worth having the guts to take that step forward.
We keep saying life is to short, and it is, so drop it! Do what really is making you happy now! Who cares what people will think? what will happen once they judge you? whatever it will happen it will pass. The true friends that love you unconditionally will still be there for you with whatever decision you make and the ones that maybe one day they cared but maybe not enough to understand you, let them go, because in the end quality is better than quantity, and I would rather have only one true friend who doesn’t judge me regardless than 100 that would fake it and will judge me later.
Someone said one time, a true friend is the one who will always have your back when someone talks bad about you and you are not present.
The choice of being happy with the thought of knowing life is too short is up to us, we can choose to keep sacrificing what we truly want now and leave it for later or we can be happy now, simply because the now is what we have, and the tomorrow you never know if it will arrive.
I never regretted a thing of my life, with all the ups and downs I’m fortunate to feel truly grateful for every moment, because every moment took me to where I am now. It taught me a new lesson, it showed me a new way it gave me a different experience, whether it was something good or bad, it was part of my life, and I’m grateful for every second I had.
Thank you to everyone that made the story of my life possible, sorry if I hurt you, I never meant to, if you know me you know I’m a good person. I’m thrilled if I inspired you but above all thank you to the ones who stood for me regardless, blindly or with open eyes, but simply because you believed in me and never judged me.
So if you love someone don’t waste a second without telling them how much you love them, and show them! and if you don’t be honest because we all deserve to live the truth and have other opportunities to truly be happy. If you don’t have a big house today, enjoy what you have that is little and enjoy every second while you work towards your goals of achieving your dreams, because you will be even happier. And be grateful, gratefulness gives you happiness and there is always a reason for everything. So, never stop believing, because if you believe you will make it happen, remember your beliefs will become your reality, so what do you want your reality to be?
Happiness should not depend of all the external factors we condition ourselves to. The truth of happiness starts within yourself. When you can master a mindset of inner balance and live from a place of alignment within your most authentic self, you’re proactively creating your environment by choosing how you want to see the world around you. Happiness starts within yourself.