Everyone in life is looking for their purpose or what makes them happy to make life much more worth while. That search does not truly start until you leave the home at the ripe age of eighteen and realize that there is a lot more to living besides just waking up, going to school, hanging out with friends, spending time with your family, etc. We grow up thinking that life is that simple. In reality, things are much easier when we are littler. Our lives are based upon doing the things we like to do balanced with the things we have to. However, majority of the time we just do the things that we enjoy most.

So, what changes? We grow older and we clutter our lives with negative things. We forget the skill that we had as a child and conform to the idea of "dealing" with the pessimistic things that make us unhappy. We place ourselves in the situation to be surrounded by people we do not necessarily care for, in situations that are negative that we could easily avoid, or do things we thoroughly just do not enjoy. It is a given that we do not always have the option that we can remove every little thing from our lives that are negative but, we could do a better job of it.

After several months of letting myself do exactly that and let pessimism surround me, I had come to find that my quality of life did not seem that great. I made the active decision to change my life by choosing to do more of what makes me happy and less of what does not. I still did what I had to do but I also came to find a balance in my life so I could have both what I had to do and what I wanted to do.

In this life, you are only allotted a very specific amount of time in this life and even that can be cut off by a couple days, months, or even years. So why do we waste our time? We get so caught up in the craziness of life that we do not realize that life is much more worth while when we get to do things that we enjoy. Instead of taking that extra hour arguing with someone, take a walk with your best friend. Instead of working that extra shift, spend the day with your mom because you only get so many minutes with her anyway. You can even skip out on the salad every once and awhile and have a cookie because I know they sure make me happy.

At the end of the day, the best people you will ever meet are the happiest of people. Strive for that.