happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Clipping back time...
I KNEW there was a problem on the floor when I saw the supervisors go into the office and shut the door. I had been working for under a year at a busy 911 center and had graduated to the "info channel" where all transactions regarding warrants, tows, property and other official transactions took place. I was on my very last day of training proudly anticipating the moment I would take over the radio by myself.
By CHRISTINE LEE BUHR5 years ago in Motivation
Blossom Where You Are Planted
Over the past few years, I have felt the crunch of life being life. Yet, it seems life is constantly pushing me to improve in some way or the other. Sometimes I go down unwillingly. Other times, I come along agreeable seeing the need. All the while learning and feeling the pinch when I am resistant to learning the lesson presented. I started to see things that I became lit up about, sometimes in a storm of anger, sometimes in a flurry of this is incredible.
By Jeff Johnson5 years ago in Motivation
Why creativity is hard
“You’re supposed to be expressing yourself creatively, it’s essentially the thing that gives you life.” A graph of my birth details are up on the screen, a mixture of planets, times and colours that I don’t understand, but a specialist is explaining to me in the form of a reading. An overarching theme of my chart is that I have to create in order to feel fulfilled.
By Aimee's Stories5 years ago in Motivation
All I want to talk about is one of you
Start writing... Everyone in this world has a unique talent. Some people succeed on their own. And some people achieve together in a crowd. A man, whether rich or poor, has unique talents. A crowd that enjoys watching it, a crowd that makes fun of it. .Let it go I say my favorite here.I like to write the story.I also like to tell the story.There are a bunch of friends to listen to what I say.I am writing a story in that way read and see if you like it too.If you like it you are my fans too can go right into the story.Love is something that always makes you think. There will be no one who does not fall in love. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. One can find a love story in this area.I was in the twelfth grade then. My family is a very strict family. They would never let me out anywhere. It was a rare thing that left me in Duson. I will go to Duson in the evening.Then one day my favorite song rang from someone's phone. I love listening to that song. Then I don't know everything about downloading and listening to the song. I looked back when the song sounded like a ring tone on his phone ...!If someone sees us we will look at the opposite or not .. as well as he, why did she look at me like this. But I didn’t take it too seriously ... once again I saw him on the bus.Even then his cell phone rang the song on that quiet bus .. I saw him .. I looked back at him. He looked at me too. Alas ... I returned shyly. I saw a small smile on my face with one glance as if I was ashamed.When I went to Duson on a beautiful evening, he stood by the side of a tea shop and called me Hey Papa ... they just call me Papa at home ... I suddenly came back .. but he called.It's a little papa. I screamed and ran to see if he had found my crazy self. Someone who was familiar for the first time in my life so his memories throughout the night. Dreams drove me to sleep.If I look at everything on the bus from where he sits, I will stand like I know. The bus will look in the mirror and see his face.This continued daily.A perfect meeting on the bus one day. The situation has arisen where he is standing nearby. Even on Valentine's Day. He asked for my bag.I gave too. That night when I opened my bag there was a greeting card in it. It threw me off. One page is happiness. But I was afraid of what I would do if I saw someone at home. Not only that but this experience is also new.The next day I took the card and gave it to him angrily. He parted it and smiled away, I was happy. Because I wrote Me Too in it.Our love continued. Who understood me most. He can only speak a word of fear for fear of theft.Then he got a job abroad. He will come to a certain bus only on Friday. Whatever time I talk to him out of my mind. Because it is a very close time.No cell phone then. Didn't talk to him everyday. Seeing him is only on Friday nights. I will rush to catch that bus.I am happy with that. Even missing him for a week would be great suffering. Know his hometown. Know about family. But nothing was seen in person. He did not even seem to test whether what he was saying was true.He would come and buy me some gifts every week. I will look at it and give it to him. I asked how marriage is all possible. I said look. No re-word on that. I told my friends all about this.They said stupid love. Without speaking. They said how without looking. But exactly eight years later when he married me. I do not care in the face of my friends.!I hope you like this story
By Zarinabanu Zarinabanu5 years ago in Motivation
"Enjoy Peace!"
I love to Quilt. I am by nature a very creative person. I feel the most content and fulfilled when I am creating. I started out by borrowing my mother's old Kenmore sewing machine and making myself curtains for a new house. I moved on from simple curtains to making Christmas gifts and décor for friends and family like tree skirts, table cloths, stockings and such. I have been making quilts for many years but wanted to do something to give back. I feel incredibly blessed in my life and believe we honor our gifts the most by giving to others that may not be as fortunate. I make quilts, pillowcases and tote bags for children placed with our local Children's Aid Society. These children are often forced to leave their homes in a hurry and under very scary and often negative situations. They don't have the ability to keep many of their own possessions and have nothing to call their own. It is a very special feeling to be able to create something that they can not only call their own but could provide comfort and support as well as a nice warm hug at a time in their young lives that is so fraught with uncertainty and negativity. I found a group called Project Linus Canada and now I make quilts for children that are experiencing illness, tragedy, loss or major life events. Currently there are 4 people in the chapter I direct for my area and we have made and donated over a hundred quilts to children in need of a nice handmade gift of love and warmth. In addition to the Project Linus work I also enjoy making memory quilts for people. I have made about 15 quilts to commemorate different events in peoples lives such as vacations, loss and love. I love these quilts because there is so much versatility in them. I can make them by printing photos onto fabric to commemorate a specific person or event. I can personalize by using pieces of clothing that are appliqued onto the fabric to create a completely unique and special remembrance of virtually anything. I can embroider fabric to make into a quilt (or just about anything else) to create totally unique gifts and items to help people remember and honor those they love or a place they have visited. Fiskars has been a tremendous help to me on my quilting journey. I use so many Fiskars products to help me create. I use Fiskars scissors, rotary cutters and cutting mats just to name a few and love these products for their durability, quality and value. Creating the quilts I make it is extremely important that I am able to rely on my equipment. Whether creating unique and special memories for people or honoring loved ones that have passed, I need to be able to produce quilts with quality that will last as long as possible to help ensure those memories don't fade. The comfort that the quilts provide to the children we donate to is of the utmost importance in their young lives at a time when they may not have any other comfort to look to and for this reason it is important to provide them with quilts made with not only all the love we can put into them, but quality that will last for a lifetime as they move on and forward into often uncertain futures. With the uncertainty of Covid-19 taking over the world it is even more important for those that can, to do for those that can't or give to those that don't have. I have made masks and scrub caps as well as quilts to help thank the first responders in my area continue to do what they do, and to say thank you for helping to take care of us when we all need it the most. It becomes more and more important every day for us to take care of each other, to help each other and I am so very happy to have been blessed with a gift that allows me to give my love to those that need it, to provide comfort to those that may not have any and to help someone find peace when they are struggling to get through each day. With each quilt I make and donate I give with the message "Enjoy Peace!" for it is Peace that I am awarded by making and gifting the quilts.
By Terri Gallan5 years ago in Motivation
Living My Life Blind
I live my life blind, plain and simple. This is different from person to person, as you can tell on the news, in social media, writers, entertainers, and celebrities. What I mean by living blind is pretty simple but before I get into that and how that is my passion, let me regale a few tales that kick-started me into this way of thinking.
By Aaron Gensel5 years ago in Motivation
