happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Don't be a Summer Bummer
This year has been a wild ride to say the least and it’s only June. 2020 was going to be my year. From the pandemic, to getting furloughed, to protests, it has been tough to stay positive and see the light at the end of the tunnel. Usually around summertime I have events, weddings, concerts, and parties to look forward to, most of which have been cancelled due social distancing. This year has been going a lot different than expected, yet I am really trying my best to stay optimistic!
By Shunti Amadi6 years ago in Motivation
Shedding Skin
Sitting atop an oceanside bluff, listening as the echoing clap of waves fizzle into a delicate sea simmer. The pink sun is swallowed by the distant shoreline as I peer out to the horizon. Summer is reborn--a time of pure bliss that comes once a year, filled with intangible, precious memories. Spontaneous road trips, carefree campfire adventures, and deep conversations that go late into the starry night. What characterizes the season is its arid, tropical climate, but what sticks with us most are the outdoor excursions, vacations, and the indescribable nostalgia of our childhood traditions. To put it lightly, the summer of 2020 is unlike any other--our world is navigating a tumultuous pandemic, experiencing tragic events that have spawned radical social change. Humanity has been dealt unwarranted changes that have knocked many off of their feet, postponing major milestones and events such as graduations, weddings, and national conventions. Despite these ever-changing circumstances, we all owe it to ourselves to take advantage of the summer and focus on its true meaning: happiness.
By Nicholas Soden6 years ago in Motivation
Are you happy?
Knowing your purpose Are you happy? If not, are you trying to make everybody else happy? This is not your purpose. You were not born to please everybody; it is not your responsibility. If you are trying to make everybody happy – stop it – you are attempting the impossible. You will end up miserable and sad.
By Kay Johnson-Clennon6 years ago in Motivation
Ultimate Summer Bucket List
Many of us are currently feeling nostalgic for summertimes past -- ones that weren’t so socially-distanced. We’ve entered into uncharted territory recently, both as a global population and as individuals. The last few months have forced us to pull back the curtain, and confront issues that are uncomfortable and painful. We’ve been faced with a spectrum of emotions, often grappling with feelings of loneliness and helplessness. However, despite the tragedy and loss our world has endured, the last few months have also brought unexpected gifts, like self-reflection, gratitude and kindness. There will still be some of my favorite summer staples (as pictured - hellllooo rosé), but this time around, my summer plans look a little different, because I’ve found there are parts of “life during lockdown” that I feel are definitely worth preserving.
By Tracey Bakun6 years ago in Motivation
Home: The Place You Discover Everything You Are
I've spent my entire life in the slow-moving pace of a small town. The countryside, though undoubtedly beautiful, comes with many frustrations for a young heart like mine. In a world as small as Cobleskill, you realize that there is so much beyond the invisible walls that we call home.
By Keane Neal-Riquier6 years ago in Motivation
Why I Woke Up Happy This Morning
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This will always be true even after you and I are long gone. It will never stop happening that way unless some universal phenomenon occurs. Hopefully by then, we aren't around for that kind of chaos.
By Baylee Tyree6 years ago in Motivation
An Introduction to Removing Negative Blockers
My name is Jennifer and I’m an Empath. For a long time, I didn’t realize that I was an Empath. Really, it wasn't something that I was taught as a child. In fact, I still remember the first time that someone told me they thought I was an empath. I remember thinking how insane that sounded. We were shooting a music video (I was an extra) and this person who had been dancing with me just blurted it out. “I feel so much more relaxed around you, are you an Empath?”
By Jennifer S. Benson 6 years ago in Motivation
So.. you want to Surf?
I could spend infinite hours reminiscing on the countless moments spent in the liquid of our mother Earth, paddling through the thick salt of a blue sea that brilliantly catches the rays of the sun above to then throw them deep inside the pores of my eastward facing skin, decorated with the shine of salt that sticks happily to the unshaven hairs on my cheeks.
By Dakota Wienges6 years ago in Motivation
Living Life Without A Purpose
There are days that come with stress, work, mixed emotions that later have an effect on you when the night falls. Tossing and turning with sleep being something that is at a distant land nowhere near to arriving at your location, it is then there is only one thing to do. Think. Thoughts start flooding your mind with endless what-ifs, memories that seemed to be dead and buried are brought back to life, and as much you wish to maybe get rid of the thoughts they stick to you just as much as you are stuck to them. Thoughts are interesting, they are constructed depending on our emotions and past occurrences, it is the formula to making them seem so realistic and possible to happen. However, there are thoughts that are formulated in our biological factory, called a brain, to cause fear and nothing else. Thoughts as much as they are fascinating can also be capable to fill a person’s veins with so much terror that they are driven mad, never to be seen again. It is during those periods of time when everything seemed to be against you, everything that could ever go wrong did, and you are left alone in a quiet and dark room only to think. After every punch life has thrown at you, you could only block certain ones, but time after time you got hit over and over again, at the end you are left in the ground motionless, beaten. At a certain point the doubts have to come into action, the questions that you ponder to get an answer to are finally manifested and need an explanation, an explanation you have yet to figure out. I am a mere teenager, I know nothing about life yet I have experienced it and have had the same questions as so many others. What is truly the purpose of life? What if I never get to accomplish that purpose? Kids are throughout the entirety of their childhood imprisoned in a four wall institution, school, and once completed move on to pretty much the same cycle just with a different name. What is there to do when all we basically do is wake up, study, and go back to bed, the same situation being with adults that wake up, make money for the economy, and go back to the cycle. Over time we have been successful at becoming one thing and one thing only, robots, and instead of advancing we just seem to be stuck in one place, just like are thoughts are. Many people are scared of death, scared that once they go out there is nothing but darkness in the other side, I wish to believe that is not the case, I wish to believe that my true life begins once this circus ends. In no means am I promoting anything than living the life we have, but I do wish to motivate people to do what they enjoy, the one thing that makes you smile without you knowing it, regardless if it makes you the most popular, the richest, what is the point of having money when your soul, your mind, and your heart are not rich with happiness? I sound like the typical motivational you tuber with super high music in the background, but it is the only way I know of really transmitting this message. There are people that have it all fame, money, popularity you name it and at the end of the day they were not happy, being consumed by thoughts inhabiting their head, that like mentioned before only drew them to the edge of the abyss, never to be seen again. My heart goes out to them and to the people that have and are in the same situation. Live life, try to be happy, and if can’t be search for it until you know you are there. I wish you the best of luck, may you find happiness.
By Graveyard Shift FM6 years ago in Motivation
