Happiness Earned

There’s a wide variety of topics that have crossed my mind to blog about lately, from age, to relationships, to the various motivations behind people’s actions. A lot has been happening lately that is worth discussion but it all seems so depressing when I start writing about it. Life is challenging from time to time and people don’t always do the right thing, but that isn’t any reason to get down.

I’ve always believed in my mind that it doesn’t matter what people think of me, as long as I like who I am. But what your mind knows and what your heart feels can sometimes be very different from one another. You hear words spoken in what might be a joke that strike too close to your true feelings and those words aren’t so funny anymore. You see the heartless and just plain mean actions of thoughtless people and you take it to heart and let it affect your mood. Sometimes it’s hard to get your heart and your mind to communicate with one another.

My mind knows who I am, my heart (like many other people) sometimes has doubts. But I digress from my original thought process. Yes, life is challenging and yes, some people are just mean or evil, but that is no reason to let it affect your mood or your faith in yourself. It can be hard, sometimes, to keep your spirits up when all around you seems to be working against you. If you can overcome it, however, you might find that the happiness you experience is that much sweeter. Anything earned is much more appreciated than something given to you. That is true of anything, an education, a paycheck, and especially happiness.