The Price of Not Chasing Our Dreams Includes Our Happiness
This morning, I got up and turned on my iPad. It’s been some time since I’ve watched a sermon from my pastor Mike so I felt compelled to watch. And what I witnessed today had me shaken and wanting to ask others this one simple question. Are you truly living life or are you just simply existing? This is a question that I tend to ask myself a lot as I always want to make sure that I am following the path that’s right for me. Everyone’s path to happiness will not look the same. As a matter of fact, who said that there was a path to happiness anyway? What is happiness to you? Because to me, happiness is something that’s within ourselves.
Contrary to popular belief, you absolutely choose to be happy. Every day you wake up, you have the ability to set the tone for the day. The tone that you set for yourself will be paramount to what goals you are planning to achieve for yourself. Wake up with intention and I would bet a million bucks that you get much more done that day, than if you had woken up without a plan. Discipline is everything as it beats out talent, motivation, shortcuts, etc. Teach yourself how to have boundaries and practice self-discipline if you want to achieve the goals that you have set out for yourself.
Are You Walking In Your Truth?
Admit it, many of us are working at jobs that we don’t really like. Watching/playing sports that we don’t really enjoy, just to pass the time and keep ourselves distracted from our real problems. Some of us are in relationships that we are dying to get out of but are afraid to be alone. I mean the list goes on and on, this is why it’s important to live life on YOUR TERMS and YOUR TERMS ONLY. Honestly, who cares if your mom wants you to be a lawyer? The question that you should ask yourself is, “Do I want to be a lawyer?” If the answer is no, don’t do the shit! This is why many of us are unhappy. We are too busy engaging in things that we don’t enjoy, effectively serving no purpose at all.
True happiness derives from innate satisfaction. You have to be happy with YOU before anything else can bring you joy. This is why it is imperative for us to walk in our truth and only our truth. What’s true for you may not be true for someone else. I rarely take life advice from people when it comes to making decisions. Most people can only view things from their own perspective. Our experiences throughout life is what culminates our perception. We perceive things based on how they’ve been presented to us. Opinions are faulty and often involve fallacies. Don’t allow them to derail your plans or what GOD has for you. This question is meant to be answered so please, answer it in your spare time. Are you walking in your truth?
What does walking in your truth look like?
Many people love to take the road that’s well-traveled but I’m telling you now. Walking in your truth will include the road less traveled because it is not for the faint of the heart. Unfortunately, many people will never get to experience the peace that walking in your truth brings because they are just too scared. The road less traveled includes less people so it’s obvious that this road is pretty lonely and isolated. However, if you’re familiar with silence and mindfulness, then you’ll be more adept at hearing on this road. Silence is golden, it allows you to properly think. Isolation is sometimes necessary, too many voices can inundate the spirit, rendering it useless.
Walking in your truth is brutal, I know because I’ve been doing it for 10 years now. It does not get easier either, but rather more challenging the closer you get to realizing your goals. While walking in your truth, some people will think that you’re crazy for doing the things that you’re doing. Some people won’t believe, there will be doubters EVERYWHERE. Some people will abandon you, many others may ostracize you and say the famous line “You think you’re better than everyone else.” This is just a projection by the way, they say this because they don’t believe in themselves and think that you’re better than them.
None of this is your problem though, and many of you are holding your own success hostage to appease those who are around you. You don’t want to lose those people so you minimize yourself to keep them around. The trade-off for this? Your unhappiness but many people don’t even realize it. Stop chasing happiness and start being happy. And that starts with you caring about and valuing YOU.
How do we begin to start walking in our truth?
You can start walking in your truth and experiencing true happiness when you start accepting you for you! It’s hard to start walking in your truth if you don’t know who you truly are, so cultivating a sense of self-awareness is critical. Also, addressing any issues that you may have pertaining to your self-worth is another great place to start. Once you become more aware of yourself, then you can become more aware of your emotions and work from the inside out. And while we’re talking about emotions, we need to address the fact that many of us allow our emotions to control us, and not the other way around. Emotions are fleeting, I say this all the time. It’s an actual fact that the feeling of an emotion only last for about six seconds. After that, you’re milking it!
People often make decisions based on their emotions, so it is imperative to really lean into your emotional intelligence before you start the journey of walking in your truth. You must practice the art of accepting because there will be a lot of rejections along the way. You can start walking in your truth by first realizing that the current life that you are living is not your final truth after all. Many of us are destined for something much greater than what we can even imagine.
Something is itching in my spirit….
That nagging feeling that you get when you’re not doing the things you love. That’s your spirit itching for something more. Often the universe is speaking to us in a myriad of ways, but we just don’t listen. I’d advise you to take more time in getting to know yourself, as it will guide you to exactly where you need to be. What are the things that make you happy? What are the things that make you sad? Do you have any interest of your own that’s not tied to someone else interest? How would your life be if you had done the things that you TRULY wanted to do, and not what you were CONDITIONED to do? These are all the questions that we should routinely ask ourselves but we don’t. This is the exact reason why some of us will never satisfy “the itch”.
Take stock of your life and ask yourself, am I truly happy or am I just settling for the things that I’ve been indoctrinated to believe that I want?
I wrote this article to make you think! Thank-You For Reading…=)
Happiness is near!!!!