Rediscover The Beauty Of Life Instead of Just Getting By

As children, we are creatures of wonder. Spending hours exploring grass cliffs, hoping to find lady with beetles, fairy winged wings or a cape in the shops because we feel like it, laughing at irrational reasons, and finding unspoiled pleasure in a special treat, favorite cartoon, or game hide and seek game.

As teenagers, we tend to be too cool to enjoy simple things but we can control our spending time with friends, dating, and listening to the same song over and over again.

However, by the time we reach adulthood, those childhood traits may be forgotten as an invisible friend.

As adults we are allowed to do all the fun things we spent in high school we wish we could do, and yet, we are caught up in the jobs we hate, paying off debts, staying busy, sometimes just ‘just gaining.’

I know this feeling, because I was there.

And then, one day, I decided it was time to stop for a moment and find a way back to a time when life was full of joy. Rediscover the beauty of life, instead of focusing on the bad, the bad, or the painful pain of just getting it.

The Beginning of Change

At the age of 15, I wanted to work in films and television. I made my experience working in high school at a post-production company and decided that I would work there one day.

Graduating in my class studying film and TV in high school, I was (and still am) a complete film geek, studying at university. Then I came up with a dream job at a company I met five years ago.

I couldn't believe it.

From that point on, I went from contract to contract working some crazy hours (like 2PM to 2AM shifts for a whole month).

I went through periods of unemployment between contractors (and, as a result I had no money), morally broken between being honest with myself and doing what I needed to hire people to do good jobs, working for shows I hated, working with people who made my skin crawl, I was praised by my bosses but ignored by those and to continue fighting for the dream job that you felt would never happen.

Of course, the benefits of the job were great - working with some great people, every day interesting and unexpected, traveling, and working on what I still consider to be a really good industry.

But when something stops working for you, it becomes very difficult to see good from bad.

All of this came to a climax when I got a production job in which I worked. Oh, such success! You can imagine my joy after so many years of working up to the job I had always wanted. The celebration that followed the promotion ... was non-existent.

I made good money. I had a job title. I was finally getting somewhere. And I didn't even stop to admit it because I could see that I was still not happy.

A friend called to congratulate me and I didn't see him.

I was so frustrated with the anticlimax of it all. And that's when I knew something needed to be changed.

Time to Do More to Make Me Happy (You)

It may seem like a ridiculous idea to some, but I honestly and sincerely believe that when you see these habits of what sounds like endless complaining, complaining, and frustration now is the time to make some changes.

Some people are quite cool to accept that this is the only thing that exists, but not me. (And maybe not you, either).

Realizing that I was spending most of my time unhappy, I decided to do whatever I could to change that.

I changed jobs very quickly. I started working with people who meant the world to me in a role that suited me best. This gave me a place to breathe and found breath after ten years on a career path that I decided I hated.

I began to see what I liked again.

And even though I was still trying to decide what to do, it made it easier for me to finally be happy. And I saw how I could do more of this every day.

I set dates for dinner with friends Monday night to make the start of the week more fun. I took advantage of opportunities to make coffee at work and turned it into bright sunlight. I had the pleasure of living in a park over the weekend just chatting or reading.

I saw that I was changing. Of course sometimes the pressure was still there and challenges arose, but I was better prepared to deal with the unknown because I had already brought great joy into my life. Unexpected disruption ended the frustration, and the simple pleasures became very clear.

The power to change changed allowed me to find ways to do more of what made me happy.

Discover the Beauty of Life

I will be completely honest with you: this is not something that just happened to me overnight. I’m still working on my new way of working and getting what I really want in life. I still get frustrated or angry sometimes, and I still have a lot of work to do.

But something changed the day I decided to take life in my own hands and seek the beauty of life.

I became more aware.

I started to enjoy happy times with people who were dear to me because I actively sought them out, and what I had brought back came back to me especially.

I want good things instead of bad things.

And, through this, I have learned that the more we seek the beauty of life, the more we invite. As children we could easily see it, exploring the contents of our hearts but, as adults, sometimes we forget to pay attention.

We find it strange, we focus on the bad, and we love to join peacefully with others. But imagine how much we can earn in our day if we take a moment to experience the joys of life.