Happiness ( Archived) (24)

What are your sources and/or thoughts for cultivating innner happiness within yourself?. What gives you strength to carry on?

personal accountability. when you realize that...you have some control over your life and its outcome...instead of believing that all things happen TO you...it's easier to cope.

that...and faith.

and...my girls.

prayer and to try to treat others like I would like to be
treated..Just give a smile in passing......chance......

I try to happen to life, and not allow life to happen to me. Beyond that, don't know for sure. I've had my share of traumas, but bounced back as soon as my sense of humour returned. Do not take life seriously, no one gets out alive. Paws

PS: My fake plants died 'cause I didn't pretend to water them.
Paws

Happiness has never been my goal. I found inner piece many years ago. I'm content in that regard.

What I'd like to do now is find a compatible partner to share that with. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do toward that goal but wait until I find her. I'm certainly not going to change an incompatible partner into a compatible one. So there's nothing I can do, but wait.

That's all I can do.

I definitely have no problem with life itself. My only problem has been in trying to find a compatible mate. That's just not something I can force to happen. I can't change a wrong woman into the right one, and I'm not about to change who I am for any woman.

Trying to find a compatible mate is a very helpless situation. Not much a person can really do about it. It really is in the hands of "the powers that be", or "fate", or "karma" or however you believe.

It's the one area in my life that requires the participation of a separate being. I have absolutely no problem in any area of my life that requires only me.

Sometimes I think I was stuck on a planet with no available compatible women as some sort of evil joke, or perhaps some kind of a test. I'm not even sure whether I'm passing or failing the test. And if it's a joke I don't see the humor in it.

i would like to share with you the poem that gives me the strength to carry on...

I was that which others did not want to be
I went where others feared to go
and did what others failed to do

I asked nothing of those who gave nothing
and was prepared to accept the thought of eternal lonliness should I fail

I have cried, pained and hoped
I have felt the stinging cold of fear
and enjoyed the sweet taste of a moments love

but most of all I have seen things
others would say are best forgotten

atleast someday I will be able to say
that I was proud of what I was...

A SOLDIER

For me its simple little things to make others smile and happy. If I can make someone smile and or laugh then that makes me feel good about myself. Also my children have a huge factor in it as well.

Tracy :o)

meditation, the love and support of friends and family, faith, my spirituality, and cognitive psychology.