happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
A whole new world.
NOTE: Those suffering from existential crisis: PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Let it be known, I haven't been alive long. I suppose depending on where you live, how you live and who you know, your definition of 'adulthood' will differ from mine. However, Regardless of circumstance, cultural variance or contact portfolio, I can't help but ask... ...were you scared too? 'cause I am STILL freaking out. Whoever said that being an adult is not easy was OVER-understating the truth.
By Kallym De'Ortega5 years ago in Motivation
When A Parrot Finds His Courage
There once was a lovely old lady, and upon her husband's passing, a close friend had given her two parrots so she would have companions to get her through each day. Excited about her new friends, the old lady enlisted the help of a man to design and carry out the construction of an aviary for her magnificent birds.
By Adrienne Huggins5 years ago in Motivation
The First Kindness
The First Kindness It’s the hardest kind, you know? For those of us with a history of trauma where we had to appease the powerful adult(s) in our lives, performative kindness is also instinctive. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. Are you okay? Let me help. Everyone is important except me, expect us. When a parent is dangerous, the only option is to perfect, to be sweet.
By Duointherain5 years ago in Motivation
Good Deeds
The last year has been a very strange year, it has changed the world in good and bad ways. I have found that I have been in a lucky situation the last year as we had money for once in our lives, we got a dog and my mental health had improved considerably. However, I could see the worry and struggles around my town affecting my neighbours.
By Emily Kelly5 years ago in Motivation
Cold Life, Warm Heart
The 35°c (95°f) Australian heat radiates onto their unprotected skin. Flies, mosquitoes and other mites scrounge through the waste, searching for food just as desperately as the people who left it there. With every day providing no surprises, and every night bringing more and more fights fueled by alcohol. This is the life for the homeless people in Australia.
By Zythen5 years ago in Motivation
Bring It On
Dearest Donna: Well, you did it girl! You survived 2020 without getting COVID, without another heart attack or major surgery. You survived it with only one death in the family and even though he was 101 when he passed, your uncle will be sorely missed.
By DJ Stephens5 years ago in Motivation
Happiness Is My New Year's Resolution
We all hear about them; we all do them: New Year's resolutions. Lose twenty pounds, join a gym, start that new business, finish what I started. And yet, so often, they become empty words thrown into the void, words that we said because we had to. What are New Year's resolutions anyway? Why do we make them? What's the point?
By Adriana M5 years ago in Motivation
The Golden Rule
I've always thought of myself as a considerate person, was raised to treat other as I'd like to be treated, which I took seriously growing up in an Irish Catholic household. But it wasn't until I got sober at 25 that I really learned what it meant to be considerate of another person. Sure, I knew how to be nice and how to be kind, be it opening the door for someone, holding an elevator, buying a donut for the homeless man sitting outside the donut shop. But truly being considerate is a different animal because it requires us to consider other as individuals as opposed to groups. Here's an example: If I was really being c0nsiderate of that homeless man, I might have asked him what he needed, if he needed anything, before I went in and purchased whatever I thought he might want. As a "homeless person" I figured he would be hungry and thirsty, and I may have been right, but as a person, given that he was outside a donut shop, I failed to consider that that might be the 10th donut he'd been offered that day. Maybe he could have used a couple bucks on his CTA card instead, who knows.
By mom-onymous5 years ago in Motivation
My Own Best Friend
Do you know how to truly love yourself? I'm not talking about the buzzword type of "self-love" we are constantly bombarded with. Not just things like bubble baths, naps, and buying yourself that new thing you've been eyeing. I'm talking about the kind of love you give your kids, your partner, or your best friend. The way you take into consideration what they want and how they feel. How you go out of your way to show them how you feel about them by cooking them food they like, rubbing their back, and speaking kind, loving words to them. You listen in their darkest times and get excited when they're excited. You simply honor them for who they are. Do you give those things to yourself?
By Janis Beke5 years ago in Motivation
