happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
I ran everyday for 60 days — here are the results
Just me and a long black road. Sunrise spills over the pavement, lighting the steam rising from my breath as my lungs burn and my feet slap out a shaky rhythm. A cool breeze brushes my face, but it doesn’t touch the pain. When I hit the end of the road, it hits me back, I still have two miles to get home. I slow to a walk, heart pumping in my chest, legs heavy with lactic acid. I’m out of shape, and the community 5K is only two months away. The thought alone makes me sick.
By Kai Hollowayabout a month ago in Motivation
Metaphors of My Life: From Bondage to Freedom
When I look back over my life, I remember some restrictive situations that kept me in bondage. Those unfortunate situations held me captive with heaviness, confinement, and burdens that weighed me down in body, mind, and spirit. "There were seasons when life felt like a ball and chain around my ankle, dragging me down roads I never chose. At times, it was as if an albatross perched upon my neck, heavy and unrelenting. I walked through days like quicksand, each step sinking deeper, each breath harder to catch. These burdens became my invisible bars, a prison of circumstance that seemed to lock away joy. Yet even in those shadows, I learned that metaphors of restriction are only half the story." Restrictive Metaphors
By Margaret Minnicksabout a month ago in Motivation
The Garden Behind the Clocktower
Most people in Willowbend passed the old clocktower without looking up. Its bricks were faded, its bell had not rung in thirty years, and ivy crawled over its sides like time trying to reclaim it. But to Lila Hart — the quiet florist who ran the tiny shop across the street — the tower was the most beautiful landmark in town. She said the silence of the tower was a kind of music, the sort only lonely hearts could hear.
By Zidaneabout a month ago in Motivation
You Are Not Done Yet
There will come a moment in your life — maybe it has already come — when you look at everything you’ve been through and quietly whisper to yourself, “I can’t keep going.” Not because you are weak, not because you lack ambition, but because life has demanded more from you than you ever expected to give.
By The khanabout a month ago in Motivation
When Only One Person Believed
Arjun had always been a middle-class boy with a pocket full of small dreams and a heart full of unreasonable ones. He wanted to build something—not just for money, not for fame, but to prove that ordinary beginnings didn’t mean ordinary endings. He dreamed of starting his own small tech startup, even though all he had was an old second-hand laptop and a head full of ideas people called “too big.”
By Habib Rehmanabout a month ago in Motivation
Perseverance. AI-Generated.
The rejection slip for The Silent Bell arrived, as they always did, on a Thursday. It was a crisp, impersonal rectangle of white that bore the weight of a thousand invisible failures. Elias didn't even have to open it; he knew the shape of disappointment well enough. This was the tenth rejection for his first novel, the culmination of three years of painstaking work, rewritten and polished until the pages were thin with effort.
By Faisal Khanabout a month ago in Motivation
