There are a few various reasons as to why I feel better. One of them is simply because time is the best healer. Another is because I’ve taken responsibility for my actions, but only one other person besides me, could ever take the credit for my improvement. He knows who I’m talking about, don’t you, Evan? (:
There are so many factors that influence our lives on a daily, hourly, basis. We don’t always get to control what’s going on. But, hey, let’s look on the bright side–we all have an equal shot at it.
Consider this. We are all in control of our own happiness. We are all in control of who we are and who we want to be. With that said, I will leave you with a few quotes about happiness. Today (Sunday night) turned out ending many times better than I expected. Just goes to show, you never know what’s just around the corner… and I like that.
Links after each quote will take you to brainyquote.com’s page of that quote’s author with a complete archive of their quotes on various topics, beyond just happiness in most cases.
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”–Barbara de Angelis
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”–Kevyn Aucoin
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”–Marcus Aurelius
This upcoming quote doesn’t entirely relate to happiness, but it gets to there eventually. This falls into the same area of happiness, as far as achieving it, and the pitfalls we create for ourselves with how we think sometimes:
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”–Hosea Ballou
And someone give the author of the next and final quote a cookie; what a genius.
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”–Richard Bach
All of the quotes above, with exception to Bach’s, are very easily interpreted. However, the rights of which we all have, aren’t the rights all of us have. We must find the highest right we know, which could only mean that our happiness is limited by our own resistance. Interesting way of saying it.
I learned a lot tonight. It’s amazing how much you can learn in a short period of time, and how much things can change. Sometimes, it’s scary, but for the most part, anticipating change makes it a bit easier and a little more worthwhile than you anticipated. There’s always an “up” side to the “down” side: you cannot go any direction but up. That is most definitely true in this case, and I’m already headed that way.
I know that sometimes I don’t act like I appreciate what I am given, and it’s true. Sometimes, I don’t. But I realize what I have and who I have in my life soon enough, and that makes everything a lot better for me. I have myself, most importantly, and the more I give to myself, the more I can share with everyone else. Every day isn’t just mine or yours. Sometimes, we have to share it. Thankfully, I’ll have no problem with that, because I know that I have an equal chance of making it my day just as someone else has the chance to make it theirs.
It’s time to stop bitching and start sucking it up. (Credit for that quote goes to the lovely Jose :)) It’s time to get it together. It’s time to get where we want, and what we want, because we want it, dammit! 
It’s time for change, and change is here, it is now, and it’s waiting for you. And me. But I’m going with it. I’m going to stop bitching now.
Care to join me?
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P.S. As for everyone else who is my friend, don’t think you go unappreciated, either. You all are important because you are all in my life, no matter how involved you may be in when it comes to my more personal issues. As long as you are here, that’s what counts.
