What do you do when your life is a mess?

Is happiness just a matter of feeling good?

If that's all it was, drug abusers would be the happiest people on earth.

Who knows. They may very well be the happiest people on earth.

However, feeling good can produce a very unhappy side effect.

What do drug users call their methods of getting happy?

They call it a fix.

They call it that for a reason.

Because it really is just a fix.

Not something that's meant to last very long.

They are chemically trying to hold something in place.

Imagine the most beautiful butterfly you ever saw... pinned to a table.

It's not freely moving about, so you can't see it in it's true state of being.

Someone viewing the beautiful butterfly may have fleeting feelings of happiness.

But happiness dies unless it is held lightly.

It can't be forced or held down.

In the name of producing the emotional high we call happiness, most of us tend to behave in ways that is the exact opposite.

Then we end up feeling awful and inadequate with the inevitable result of pain, sadness, and emptiness.

Then what are we doing?

Just chasing a fleeting moment of feeling good.

Until we wise up, we are only just trying to get a fix on happiness.

So what do you do when your life is a mess?

Paint. Create. Flourish.

Not just with brushes.

It could be with numbers, science, language, or musical instruments.

Create art, whatever that means to you.

Create art with your words, actions, thoughts, and ideas.

Don't worry about how big of a mess your life is.

First, paint something creative.

Then figure out how your creation can create lasting fulfillment, not just happiness.

For yourself and those around you.

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