Everyone is trying their best to find happiness.
This connects us all as human beings.
Every time I go back to this thought, unwise judgment disappears.
Furthermore, when you are happy it trickles down to those around you, even those that don't know you. We are all connected in our happiness.
I look back at my own personal journey and the things that I thought made me happy (a place we lived, a job I had etc). Not until I realized how those things weren't what happiness was about, was I able to create space to find my own happiness.
This kind of happiness isn't tied to any one person, place or thing.
It's the happiness that has no name that I practice every day for.
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." M Aurelius
We had a fun Spring break trip last week. The first half we went to Alabama where we were married and had our second child. A tour of our family history. It was so special to share that with the kids and for Mike and I to go back. During one of our many long car rides Mike asked me, "Any regrets?" I answered: "No, but I wish I would have enjoyed every change for what it was. I wasn't able to do that then. I caused myself a lot of suffering (and probably you) with every move and transition, clinging to the things that I thought made me happy then."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." M Aurelius
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