Being happy is one of my main goals in life, I don’t want to live a life where I’m constantly worrying and stressing and being sad over everything, anything and nothing. Truthfully, I don’t know how to be happy all I know is that I can’t rely on other people to make me happy; I need to make myself happy! I mean I don’t need to be jumping with joy and grinning 24/7 but I want to at least be content, content with myself, my life and my future and I’m really determined to get there this time. The people I currently have in my life are kind of an inspiration to me and I aim to be as happy and carefree as they are or at least seem to be.
I am the worst person when it comes to talking about my feelings and problems, I just bottle them all up and then once I’m full of all these negative feelings and silly little problems, tiny insignificant things set me off and I start to feel like it’s the end of the world and I don’t know what to do with myself or who to turn to, I know my friends are there for me and I’m so thankful to have such great people in my life looking out for me but like I said I find it really hard to express how I feel in words. So I guess my first step towards reaching happiness is learning how to express my feelings and exterminate negative thoughts before they break me.
Living in the technological age, the first thing I did when thinking about how to be a happier person was google it, it sounds like a stupid idea but I found this website that gives ten keys to happier living; do things for others; connect with people; take care of your body; notice the world around; keep learning new things; have goals to look forward to; find ways to bounce back; take a positive approach; be comfortable with who you are; and be part of something bigger. I feel like these are good steps to take or at least think about, I mean I’ve already started writing a list of goals for the year and am looking forward to completing them, one of my main issues with myself is how I look and feel, a lot of the time I wake up feeling tired and unmotivated and it really effects my mood and I believe that if I take care of my body more by doing simple things like drinking more water, eating healthier and doing a little bit of exercise each day, I will begin to wake up happy and alive and I guess ready for life. A healthy body equals a healthy mind and all that jazz.
I think my main problem and the thing that’s holding me back the most and the thing that’s stressing me out and preventing me from being happy is the future. I worry every day about where I’m going to be in a year, five years, ten years that I’m forgetting to live. I finished university last year and now here I am not doing what I studied to do and to be honest I’m not actually doing anything about that except cry over it and I need to change that. Like I said I don’t want to continue stressing about my future and let life pass me by but I also don’t want to become so blasé over the future that I get to a point in five or ten years time where I look back and regret not thinking ahead, so I guess I need to learn to find the right balance between looking ahead and living for the day.
‘Your 20’s are your selfish years. Old enough to make the right decisions and young enough to make the wrong ones. Be selfish with your time – travel, explore, fall in and out of love, be ridiculous and silly, stupid and wild. Be 20something.’
I’m just starting to ramble now so if you’re still reading, thank you and congratulations for not closing this page down. I’m going to end this post with the three actions I’m going to attempt and hope they help to increase my happiness and improve my life and mood; every day I’m going to try and find three good things in the day, I’m going to thank the people that I’m grateful for and make sure they know that I love them and that I’m always going to be there for them and finally I’m going to start to look for the good and the positive in the people and things around me.
I guess if you continue to read this blog in the future you will see if my happiness goal is reached and I really hope I get there in the end but for now I guess we will all have to wait and see and all I can do is try.
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