happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
A Guide to (Maybe) Finding Yourself. Top Story - September 2018.
I wish I could start this off by promising you a fast, 10-minute, easy fix solution, that I could somehow train your mind, body, and soul to sync in perfect harmony by the time you finish reading the last sentence.
By paleseafoam7 years ago in Motivation
Great Feelings
Cat’s great feelings: Driving down a road in the fall, when all the leaves are turning colours, and the road is lined as far as you can see with these colourful tree’s And the already fallen leaves are casually blowing across the road. Watching the way the sun shines through glass. With a slight dust floating through the sun beams, during golden hour. Riding bikes during the golden hour, in the spring, while a great album plays from your phone, and being slightly or a lot stoned. Relaxing in your freshly cleaned house, with acoustic music playing softly, and all the candles that you own burning. The first sip of your favourite beverage. Mine is red Red Bull. Instant happiness. Smoking out of a nicely cleaned or brand new bong or pipe. When it's winter and all the trees are completely white with frost, even if its cold it’s still absolutely beautiful. MOUNTAINS. Driving around looking at Christmas lights during the week of Christmas, with hot chocolate. City lights at night. The smell of pine tree’s. Drinking coffee and writing poetry Finding your comfortable place in your bed, and just feeling completely warm and at peace. Rolling the perfect joint or blunt, and impressing everyone including yourself. The first time drinking eggnog for the season.(Thanksgiving can’t come soon enough) The first warm day after a cold, long winter. Seeing your first flower of spring blossoming in your garden. Laying in a hammock on a warm summer day, just zoned out watching how the sun finds its way through the think leaves. Golden hour in general, the way it makes the whole world look like its being filtered like on my phone. Bonus greatness if you’re wearing sunglasses during it. Doing something to improve a strangers day, be it a smile, extra parking minutes, anything to make them feel good.
By Caterina Greentree7 years ago in Motivation
Becoming an Adult Far from Everything—Pt. II
One year ago, I took the plane to cross the ocean. Six hours later, I was in another dimension: North America. Quite a big deal for an 18-year-old boy who has never lived far from his family. I was unconscious. I did not even know what I was doing… However, I did it.
By Jean 🦅7 years ago in Motivation
Secure Every Loving Foundation
Self love teaches us how to love the world. Our mind works like an energy conductor and as such it creates assumptions about the energy of what is happening and then projects its interpretations out onto the world around us so we can watch it play back to us and teach us what we most need to learn, but most people are not aware of this even being possible. We see everything in its literal sense as our reactive self does the best it can to interpret the data until we cross the inner bridge to see things symbolically instead. This can happen gradually or in stages that are quite abrupt and we will find afterwards that we were fully prepared by life for these crossings and stages but while we are actually undertaking them, we usually feel completely unprepared. Driven by an instinctual reaction called "fear," we bounce through life like a pinball being buffeted off flippers and bumpers, tilted and smacked until we make our way determinedly through the playing field. Our mettle is tested many times before we get where we want to be and rest in the socket of our own love. There are ways to change this process but how do we earn them if our culture has no idea how to teach us either?
By Gabriella Grace7 years ago in Motivation
How Watching the Sunset Daily Changed My Life...
Let’s face it: school is stressful AF. Especially when you have to arrive every other morning at 7:15 for high school jazz band, throughout the day possessing a serious lack of spare classes (um, more like none), and stay in prison until 4:30 for musical practices.
By Jenna Carlson7 years ago in Motivation
Mid-Life Crisis Before 30
It took me a long time to muster up the courage to take my life back. I got into a tumultuous relationship, straight after a stint in juvenile detention. I was in a confined facility where we were also able to see the boys being held. I was close to 18 and had already completed a GED and Adult diploma. I got to spend my time tutoring the other losers in that place to get their GED's.
By Casey. OneHighMom7 years ago in Motivation
Let's Talk About Getting Back To Being Happy
One day I was roaming around Barnes & Noble when I came across a book that I knew I needed to purchase and read. Getting Back To Happy by Marc & Angel Chernoff has been a book that I have needed in my life for the past few months. I have struggled with depression, anxiety, insecurity, and trust issues for years. I’ve been in and out of treatment since high school. Two years ago, I went to an intense outpatient treatment program that got me back on track and has helped my life immensely.
By Hills A7 years ago in Motivation
Is Happiness the Right Life Goal?
When I was in my early teens, I wanted nothing more than to be respected by my peers. By age eighteen, I wanted to change the world and be recognised as a great mind of the century, maybe even the millennia. A few years later that goal altered to the smaller but perhaps no less difficult, achieving personal well-being.
By Auri Bon7 years ago in Motivation
Not a Trait
Growing up homeschooled had its perks, I could sleep in, I had more time for my hobbies, and I was able to learn in a hands-on way. My mom was my teacher for a while. She sucked at teaching math, not being very good at it herself, but she was exceptional at history. Out of everything she taught me, I remember history lessons the most. I used to read history books about ancient Greece and Rome in my free time, admiring the strength of their generals and most infamous leaders, longing to be like them.
By Kendall M. Fairlane7 years ago in Motivation
When the World Keeps Spinning and You're Still Standing Still
I've been on this planet for 22 years now and honestly, I can say there are very few people out there that were able to help me without me having to mess something up first. My mom and dad were the picture perfect couple in the most picture perfect relationship for as long as I can remember, that is until I graduated high school. My dad left shortly after I graduated. He had confessed to me that he had been seeing another woman for quite some time. (Mind you as if this wasn't enough of a shock to you, it would soon be even more of a shock that she is only a few years older than me). As you can imagine this was a hard thing to process.
By Christina Early7 years ago in Motivation
