Triumphant
Triumphant
When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you. Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness. Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul. Stay curious and stay joyful.
I have tried to protect myself against people, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxication's or by some other afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies. We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy' This is because gaiety is linked to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he/she is alone. Be joyful in tribulations.
When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesn't mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you. Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do. We have come to see pain as the antithesis of happiness. Yet without the experience of pain we would not appreciate the experience of happiness. A true friend is one who can feel your heart beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire you when you are in need.
The more you open your heart to others, the more your life becomes joyful. Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with what is all of it. If you have influence on other people. Don't be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity. Instead of expecting an ideal world, we must learn to live in the real world. Instead of making our life miserable for the sake of others, we must learn to make our own lives joyful. We can give only what we have. If we are unhappy, we can’t make others happy. When we have no love in our heart, we can’t love anyone. You can’t gift wealth to anyone unless you earn it yourself. We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
We all gravitate towards pursuing happiness by exploring how to bring a state of peacefulness to our internal and external environments. A beautiful and joyful life can’t be created by following any principle or dogma or by following all the principles in a random manner. You have to learn the art of harmonizing all the principles of happiness in a way that matches the rhythm of your life and creates happiness for you. Isn’t it amazing? We journey through our lives, make mistakes, say the wrong things, and many times live with regret. We’re human we’re going to make mistakes, but the blessings God sends our way, most of them never asked for, they just intervene, giving us the joyful light we need. Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives. You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people. We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.
If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.