Learning to be Happy.
Saturday, May 27, 2017
I don't have a quick fix or an answer that will change your life, but I do have some tips from how I have become happier over the past few months. And while what I'm about to say won't resonate with everyone, I know that there may just be that one person out there who was like me and needed some kind of advice that it does get better. Be aware that this is going to sound like some pathetic attempt at a motivational speech, but I really didn't mean for that to happen...
Flashback even 6 months ago and I was nowhere near as happy as I am now. I surrounded myself with the people that I thought I had to be around. I did the things I thought society wanted me to do. I made myself look a particular way to suit both of these groups of people too. At the end of January, I went away for the weekend with a group of leaders from church. At the time, I didn't realise how much that weekend would shape and influence the change I've seen happen in my life since then. Over that weekend I made friends with some of the greatest people I have ever met and since then have met many more through them. I have realised that I don't need to be someone that I am not, I don't need to dress a certain way or do things that I thought society wanted me to do.
Again, this may sound weird because I don't really know how to word it... but bear with me. Within the last few months, I've decided that I would do whatever I wanted to do to make myself happy (of course, without hurting anyone else in the process). So, in the past when I would eat a salad and no dessert I realised I wasn't happy doing that and it just didn't suit me :) So now, I'm all about a side of fries and some ice cream!! Yes, it's meant that I've gained almost 10kg (22lbs!!!) in a short span of time. But who cares?! If you're happy within yourself and with who you are that should be the only important thing.
I'm at a point where I have never been happier with the people I am surrounded with, with who I am and with where I see my future going. Get yourself to that place!! Because in a few years, will it really matter what someone else thought of you?!
much love,
XO
Flashback even 6 months ago and I was nowhere near as happy as I am now. I surrounded myself with the people that I thought I had to be around. I did the things I thought society wanted me to do. I made myself look a particular way to suit both of these groups of people too. At the end of January, I went away for the weekend with a group of leaders from church. At the time, I didn't realise how much that weekend would shape and influence the change I've seen happen in my life since then. Over that weekend I made friends with some of the greatest people I have ever met and since then have met many more through them. I have realised that I don't need to be someone that I am not, I don't need to dress a certain way or do things that I thought society wanted me to do.
Again, this may sound weird because I don't really know how to word it... but bear with me. Within the last few months, I've decided that I would do whatever I wanted to do to make myself happy (of course, without hurting anyone else in the process). So, in the past when I would eat a salad and no dessert I realised I wasn't happy doing that and it just didn't suit me :) So now, I'm all about a side of fries and some ice cream!! Yes, it's meant that I've gained almost 10kg (22lbs!!!) in a short span of time. But who cares?! If you're happy within yourself and with who you are that should be the only important thing.
I'm at a point where I have never been happier with the people I am surrounded with, with who I am and with where I see my future going. Get yourself to that place!! Because in a few years, will it really matter what someone else thought of you?!
much love,
XO
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