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Finding Happiness

The Journey to finding your happy

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Finding Happiness

Everyone always talks about finding your own happiness, but no one ever talks about how hard it is to find. Finding happiness is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The road to happiness has so many twists and turns that it seems confusing at times and the best thing ever at others. Finding happiness could even mean finding your "happy" in the journey to happiness itself. It all depends on the outlook.

Making hard choices to reach happiness are often the things that set you free from being unhappy. They might not look like they will pay off, yet they somehow always do. This seems so skewed yet, it’s usually what happens in my experience. Happiness is often what comes after making sacrifices to get to it.

Finding your happiness is a journey you have to take with others, because they are needed however, it is also a journey that requires you to go at it alone. Going at happiness alone seems risky and scary but it’s often where we find ourselves. Being at ease with who you are and people you’re surrounded with is key to happiness.

Sometimes you can get distracted or sidetracked on your way. Making wrong turns is a part of the journey. Getting lost usually makes you end up where you’re supposed to be. Letting wrong turns happen is okay, but not to the point where other people are controlling your happiness journey.

Other people should not control the happiness journey going on within you. Having the courage to do what makes you happy is why you’re on this journey right? You’ve got to make hard choices and do whatever it takes to create your happiness. You might lose some people on the way, make the wrong choice, or have a couple meltdowns, but in the end it’s worth it. It will all pay off. All of those things seem like the worst thing in the world, yet they won’t seem like that forever.

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