Let Life Be Good
Are you so comfortable in longing that when you achieve a goal you choose to yearn for more instead of appreciating how far you’ve come? Do you constantly want and need more instead of savoring what you have right now? Does happiness seem ever-elusive, always slightly out of reach?
Happiness is a mindset, not a destination.
We deludedly think the next thing will make us happy. I’ll be happy when I get married; I’ll be happy when I have kids; I’ll be happy when I get the dream job. You will not get those things without being happy first. It’s a simple law of attraction. You program the universe to deliver positive and negative events based on your feelings and thoughts. Allow simple things such as a walk in the sunshine, the beauty of a flower, or a glass of lemonade to bring a smile to your face. Connect with simplicity and honor each moment of your life for the joy it holds.
Do not save your joy and your peace for an anticipatory day or event. First, it may never come, and second, you will want more joy and more peace when you get to wherever it is you think joy and peace are.
This is your life, right now. Enjoy it before it’s too late.
Let life be good. Live while you can. Celebrate every chance you get. Throw parties for half birthdays, the Summer Solstice, your puppies rescue day. If you think about it, do it. Embrace opportunities to feel joyous levity when you recognize the little things as big things. Live as many moments as you can in the freedom you feel when you’re dancing in the kitchen with your children without a care in the world, with unbridled inhibition and total elation. Let the spirit move you without knowing the next step. Feel into the power that is present, the exhilaration that brings unstoppable happy tears: big, unreserved, salty ones that stream down your face.
Feel it so deep, like the guitar lick that hits your soul, and the lyrics that squeeze emotion from the corners of your eyes as it resonates with staggering accuracy. Let the emotion come. Tears are healing. They are nature’s bandwidth of emotional perception; ranging from pure and simple to erratic and unruly. You seldom know when or why they will hit. When tears come, capture the moment. Feel the love.
When love comes to life, you feel glorious. Once you experience overwhelming joy and peace, you will feel connected to something greater than you which may compel you to be of service to your fellow humans, especially those in need. As my light-filled daughter said about me when she was six years old, “The happy in her is love.”
The happy in you is love.
So go on…let love rip. Get carried away with your soulful self. Don’t keep these feelings inside—take them out to the grocery store, the crowded subway, and the carpool lane.
In the end, the shared, present moments of joy, peace, and love will be the only ones that matter.
