It's been a bit of a long day... Woke up a bit late, cuz I decided to go to sleep at 3 in the morning. It's not because I was working or anything, I just wanted to NOT sleep early... Helped my mom with a couple of things... Went to the park and played basketball and soccer for several hours. I'm sooooo tired that I can barely walk... And on top of that my back's hurting a bit, but it's manageable.
Now back to the title of this short piece of my mind... It's a lil bit strange how a mind really works; I was watching a movie on T.V. "The Longest Yard", and lately all the movies I've seen have a feeling like the one I'm talking about right now. Not only that but some things in my life have happened and now I'm thinking about this even more. What are we doin' here in this world? What is our purpose? Our goals?
It's just that I've been thinking about happiness... I was a bit down a few days ago and since my laptop was broken (I've got another old one btw) I did a lot of reading. I eventually wound up reading a bit of a magazine where the topic was happiness. They were asking what happiness really is and I've been asking myself the same question. As a matter of fact, for those of you who actually read some of my blog entries/notes (depends on whether you're reading on FB or my personal blog) I said in my last post that I had another question for you... Well this is pretty much it: what is happiness? Do we have different definitions for it? Depends on the person? Does money buy happiness? What is it that makes us get up every day and smile? The answer... Well I don't really have an answer for this... I've thought about it, but can't really sum it up into one simple (semi simple) answer. In my case I believe happiness is a choice. You choose to be happy or choose not to be. Situations change, events happen... But you still have the option to smile or not. Anywho... This is not really what this post's about... This is about passion... Which just happens to be a part of the answer for happiness: you have to be passionate about something in order to be happy. Feel like you have something to do in life, somewhere to go...
Which incidentally brings us to our next point in the matter: we NEED goals in our lives. If we don't have them we're simply roaming around pretending to be alive when we're actually just taking breaths. It's VERY different to be alive than to simply breath... I don't think many will argue that point...
Nonetheless... We need something to look forward to. Some place we need to reach, some goal in need of achievement, something material to finally get, someone to love... It doesn't really matter if the goal is a matter of life and death... It can be getting fit, getting good grades, start reading books, stop drinking, found a millionaire company, found a small business, buy that dress you've been dreaming about for so long, buy that car or that house, make more friends, take care of those friends you've already got, say "I love you" more often, say "I'm sorry" more often, take someone out to dinner, take your parents out to dinner, text people you know letting them know you think of them, comment on their wall... You can do almost anything and make almost anything into a goal. It's not difficult and trust me, it helps your life.
That small sense of achievement once you've finally done what you were thinking of doing is indescribable... You start building steps; one at a time. Every time you finish something you set out to do you build a small but important step. At the end of your life you get to check the altitude. Maybe you're two feet above the ground, maybe you're right next to an airplane or maybe even right next to God... In the end we build those steps to get there... (Even tho we get there simply by asking Him... we still gotta build those steps...)
Take a minute this week... Sit down in front of a piece of paper; pen in hand. Start writing everything that you want to do. Really, think about it: how do you know you've been successful in life if you don't really know what you want to do? Trace a route... You don't have to finish EVERYTHING the first time... But at least plan your week. What do you want to do this week? How about this month? This next semester...? Who do you want to be...? What do you want to change...?
Start small, build on that small thing, make it big...
ONE
SIMPLE
STEP
AT
A
TIME
Every man...
Every woman...
Every child...
Needs something...
To live for...
Something to die for...
So what are you gonna do...?
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