happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Learning, Growing, and Being Grateful
I’m currently sitting on my double bed in some comfy trackies in my new duck egg blue themed, tidy room listening to "My Girl" – The Temptations through some speakers while the sun is shining in through the windows… and I’m feeling pretty grateful.
Ali FusiPublished 6 years ago in MotivationA Different Life
There is something deeply thought provoking about that line from the James Bay song; every time I hear it I am transported to a hundred memories and situations that seem a million miles away from my current situation.
Daniel BrownPublished 6 years ago in MotivationDear Diary...FML
Uprooting one's life is like going through a form of rehab. Such dramatic change can feel like you are detoxing and all attempt to control mood swings becomes harder and harder. At least, this has been my experience in the past five months. I have never been to rehab, thanks be to whomever—maybe myself, in this case. Last year, as in many people's experience, was...shit or shitty. I found myself in a situation that I could not control. Events were happening to me that were not of my choosing. So what happens when you are faced with grand upheaving life-changing circumstances that are not your own? You pack up your life and move across the country.
meghan marshallPublished 6 years ago in Motivation2017-2018 So Far...
A lot has happened in 2017 that I feel like only worked against me in every single way. Not to be all sad and helpless, I had the best beginning of 2017. Never thought I would ever work 2 jobs, and I ended up working 3 jobs at once. The last job was the one I least attended—still counts. I'm a lazy person, so to me that was a huge accomplishment. The least attended job became my full time job about 7 months into 2017. Since then, it's been none stop anxiety. But, the bigger picture is pretty big so I'm sticking it out. The last few weeks of 2017 made me so antsy, I couldn't wait for it to just end. I had a mental count down of 2017 since around October. It is kind of foolish for me to be waiting on a certain date to end when in reality its just another day. What else doesn't add up is that it became 2018 in Toronto, while parts of the world were already living through their 2018s. So the fact that I was relieved that it had turned 2018 at the time that I had witnessed it, made no sense at all—kind of like all of 2017. Food for thought.
Anastasiya DusovaPublished 6 years ago in MotivationThe Fat Mirror
« I'm not enough, » « I'm not pretty enough, » « I'm too fat » … We all have, one day, looked at the mirror and thought that we weren't good enough to go out and enjoy the world around us. Instead, we put on leggings, comfy socks, wide t-shirt, and we stay at home.
Diana SolPublished 6 years ago in MotivationSelf-Care: Good for You, Good for Me, Good for Us!
Self-care, one of the easiest things we can do for ourselves, but yet it seems like we never have time to do it, or at least just don't seem to want to do it. Like any university student, I feel that! But hear me out, self-care isn't just pedicures and eating healthy, heck no!
dRAKE therealnigPublished 6 years ago in MotivationA Letter of Gratefulness (2017)
As I get older, I start to feel like materialistic things do not impress me anymore. I am not saying that a new nice dress wouldn't make me happy, but a handwritten letter from a friend or a call from an old lost relative is definitely what makes life worth living for me. I saw a lot of my friends on online sites expressing their grief by posting a picture of their loved ones who recently passed away. Although I understand that everyone deals with grief in a different way, I do not understand why they feel the need to put this on a website such as Facebook or Twitter when we all know that getting likes and retweets will not take our pain away.
Brandy CooperPublished 6 years ago in MotivationWhy I Decided to Just Be Happy
There have been a multitude of things in my life that have made me truly happy. Anything ranging from my friends, to my family, to beautiful experiences I've had, to opportunities that were given to me. I love going to summer concerts, and weekend visits to my best friends. One of my favorite places in the whole world is the coffee shop. It makes me so happy to just sit there any enjoy the atmosphere and the good coffee. I love trying new food and drinking wine. I love doing things that are exciting and new and that I know are going to make me happy!
Bryanna BurshnickPublished 6 years ago in MotivationPassion or a Lucrative Being
At some point in our lives we all want to fit in. For whatever scientific reason that I could care less about, we have the desire to not stick out like a sore thumb. Unless of course we become famous through some socially accepted and appropriate avenue. We all grow up taught to reach for some goal, our education is centralized as practically the reason for our existence. Nothing is more important than school and everything else is a hobby or a phase. As much as I dislike the school system but love education, this article isn’t about that, it’s about asking the question where and who the hell am I and why.
L. R. Anthony’sPublished 6 years ago in MotivationChange and Why It’s Not So Scary
Change /CHānj/ - Verb - the act or instance of making or becoming different Change is a scary thing. We all know this to be true. It's like the “monster under your bed” we all believed in as a child. It’s hard to forget about it when it’s something you know to be there but you just can see it, but you feel it's underlying presence at all times. You can get so used to one way of life, going ever day with this comforting feeling of a constant routine. This routine feels so safe for countless reasons. It can make you think, “Why would I ever want to give this up” so it’s understandable when you get even one small, daunting thought about changing your set way of life and you get spine chilling feelings. Even if the change would ultimately be for the better.
Kayleigh BarbosaPublished 6 years ago in MotivationCreating Happiness
It’s okay to not be happy all the time, it doesn’t make you a bad person if you feel sad sometimes; it makes you normal. People say that to be positive you have to always love yourself, no matter what. There’s ways you can have some positivity in your life without this self-love that may seem difficult or impossible.
Emily MarshmellowPublished 6 years ago in MotivationForget the Extraordinary. Chase the Ordinary
Here’s the thing: unless you make actual time travel a reality sometime this century, nothing you’ll ever do is going to be remarkable enough.
Rares StoicaPublished 6 years ago in Motivation