happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
HOPE
Setting the mood... Got my Lucky Charms, Spotify Music and about to type away on my laptop. Good morning ya'll! Currently ran across this photo (and will provide many background stories to my photographs in the future) and felt my heart melt and be touched a little bit.
By Kimberly Lueck5 years ago in Motivation
I've Lost Myself
I don't think we ever really know who we are until we've been through some shit. And let me tell you, I've been through some real tough shit in my life that I can clearly say I know who I am. But lately I have absolutely no idea who the hell I am.
By LeAnn Murch5 years ago in Motivation
Two Simple Words
The sun of the eternal city beats against my skin as our bodies rest on a wooden bench in the middle of Piazza Cavour. The vibrant, clear sky hovers above the aged, stone buildings surrounding the park. Cars circle this tiny island of fresh grass, the sound of their engines fill the background mixing with the voices and laughter from the groups gathered in the piazza.
By LIFE, by n.v.5 years ago in Motivation
Being Present for Real
My husband’s mother has been in and out of the hospital this past few months. This has been a journey of health challenges she has been facing for over a decade now. The last time she was ill my husband was away and so I had to go to visit with her three hours away and had to spend the night with her in the hospital. It made him happy and gave him peace, to know someone was there with her. Sometimes we take these things for granted. And in a society where we have been taught to expect opportunities and services as an entitlement, its crazy that in a few short months much of this has been stripped away. Nobody could have ever imagined that opportunities like spending time with our loved ones or supporting them and being able to connect with them physically to encourage them could be taken away. But in this era of COVID-19 that is exactly what has happened and much has changed, and many things often taken for granted has been taken away. And it has left the most vulnerable populations of the elderly, sick and recovering family members, friends and loved ones alone.
By TanYah Global5 years ago in Motivation
Just Like The Lotus
I always wanted a tattoo! So when I turned twenty-one, I decided to get one! Well, I wish someone would have warned me not to get one after having way too many drinks! It was my 21st birthday and my golden birthday at that! Me and ten friends went to celebrate and then after dinner I decided I was finally going to get my first tattoo! I walked in the tattoo shop and decided on the first picture I saw...a dolphin. Yes, a small blue dolphin! I never had an obsession for dolphins, much less swam with a dolphin, but for some crazy reason I was fixed on having one tattooed on my lower back! From the very next day until now, I have regretted that decision!
By Love•Lotus5 years ago in Motivation
Grabbing life by the walls
For 27 years I didn't have a body. When I was a tiny child I worked out that, despite my chromosomes vehemently disagreeing, I am male. But my small scared self couldn't quite process the disparity between my body and soul, let alone tell anyone. So I think my brain sort of detached itself as a survival mechanism. I floated aimlessly about with my mind lost to music, books, films and day dreams. You don't need a body to write and sing. I could be a floating mass of consciousness, my physical form serving as little more than a perfunctory vessel.
By Joe Williams5 years ago in Motivation
Slender Black Ink
The pages weren’t yellow when I first found them. It wasn’t the yellow brick road, but more like black stepping stones on a pale gray, faded manilla backdrop that blotted out a world of violence and the sweetness of death. Following that path I found someplace other than where I was. The first chapter book I read was the ‘Wizard of Oz’ by Frank Baum. There had been a mountain of Little Golden Books before that, shelves of them in my grandparents’ house. I’d already tried writing stories though. The first memory I have of writing a story was on a dark and not stormy night. I sat on the floorboards on the back seat of some car. I don’t know where my mom got the car. My ink was blue, the pages were in one of those rainbow pads. It was just me and Captain Kirk and some monster. When I look back to that moment, I expect I thought I was happy. I wasn’t. It was cold. I was hungry. I was probably seven, with long brown hair, and hunched over that little notepad, I wrote page after page in huge letters because I needed glasses and I thought that was normal. I thought I was happy.
By Duointherain5 years ago in Motivation
Life is messy
There's never a dull moment in my life and that's not always a good thing, sometimes it can be overwhelming and quite annoying to say the least. There has been some fantastic moments in my life but majority just seems to be one disaster after another and I can't seem to catch even the smallest of breaks. I know life is what you make of it but my God a tiny breather here and there wouldn't hurt.
By LeAnn Murch5 years ago in Motivation
Finding Happiness in Dark Places
You may think you know what this article is about. Its simple isn't it? The world currently finds itself in the midst of turmoil which feels like its draining the very life out of us, how can we turn this around so that it doesn't? What can we do? I have been asking myself this very question every day that I cannot see the smiles or smile back at my fellow humans as we pass each other on the street; every day that I cannot go to my church or yoga class or get a professional massage or share a movie with a theater full of excited happy people with similar interests.
By Kassandra Lombard5 years ago in Motivation
