The Long Road To Happiness……

And I am still on it. I do often wonder if real happiness isn’t about what I have or who I have but more about how I perceive the world so that all that looks dark and menacing, all that feels like it could break you into two, all those that would think to cause you pain and suffering, all that is just plain bad in this world, is actually seen with rose-coloured glasses as being ok. Am I meant to be happy just because? Am I meant perhaps to ignore the bad things in the world that happen to us and find myself in some ever lasting blissful ignorance?

I do have to ask how this is possible? I mean how can one such as myself, one whom I regard as a skeptical thinker, a wise cynic, able to just live in blissful ignorance? Sure the realities to such as myself and those like me, weight heavily upon my very being in a way that in inescapable?

So then, where does this leave me? Trying to escape a reality that I know is harsh and sometimes really uninviting yet at the same time I embrace all its beauty in the same breath as all its maddening darkness. Where do you draw the line?

Depression is like this at times. You never quite know which way to look next. All the more amplified if something goes wrong in your life. If something is added to the mix that just distorts your reality to a point where nothing makes much sense anymore. How do you clear the tracks to the point where you can hear the beat of your heart again and feel alive once more?

I am not sure I have answers for these questions and many more like them. I think sometimes you need to just look on the bright side of life. Easier said than done some would say. However looking is free for all to do, even the blind. It is a state of mind. The mind being a rather powerful tool in your life, more powerful than anything on this planet is capable of producing, often we neglect to use its power. Positive thought processes help us move forward, help us heal even. Healing of the soul is merely a healing of the mind. A hard thing to do if your mind is so mixed up that it has a hard time recognising the good in life, but it is doable. Anything is possible right?

The long road to happiness is just that, a long road, but luckily for us we have two abilities that hold us high above most other species on the planet and they are the ability to make new friends and the ability to remember good times. Just have to remember the good times over the bad. Don’t ever forget the bad though, as they are a way for us to move forward without making the same mistakes. Use them wisely for they are the guiding lights on the path before us, a path so full of treachery, deception, lies and abusive world of the emotions of the mind, that we need these experiences in order to end up finding exactly what it is that we need. In order for us to be happy or at least content within our short lives.

The End.

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