When it comes to my personal happiness I would say I am an 8-9. I have enough money to cover the basics that are needed for daily life. My children are, mostly, in good places in their lives. I have answers to what is different about my youngest boys, my oldest and I are establishing a relationship as mother/son (he was adopted by my brother and his ex-wife) and I have pictures of my dad.
The beliefs I have about aging seem to all tie in together. They seem to be different heads of the same monster. For to me aging means loss of mobility, pain, dependence on others, addiction to pain meds, death and separation from loved ones.
To explain how this movie made me feel is as complex as the feelings themselves. At different parts I felt different …show more content…
I am a very negative person by nature. I tend to see the bad and focus on that. About 10 years I left my ex-husband and started on a journey to be happy. If I couldn’t be happy then at least be content. I studied people who seemed to always be smiling, asking questions, looking on the internet etcetera. Then I ran across the poem that is attributed to Mother Theresa “Do it anyway”. I have tried to live my life with that as my guiding principal ever since. To do one good deed a day for someone else. It can be something as small as smiling at someone. To remember that you need to take care of you, always. Charity is not for the other person but for you. There are always going to be people who are ready to cut you down, to make themselves feel better. Ignore them, you are as important as everyone else. Material things are fleeting, but family/friends are forever. Friendships are as vital to a happy life as oxygen is to breathing. Nobody gets out of this life alive so why not help others along the path we call life? The human spirit is an amazing thing that can overcome tragedy, even tragedy that seems insurmountable. Actually I am wrong there were a few things that I often wondered about but had never really seen in action so wasn’t sure about them. That is the communal living. The spending time with other people, supporting strangers just because they needed it. I always thought …show more content…
For not only do they work every day in some endeavor, they also make each other a priority. The interconnectedness that is present in their daily lives help to maintain the happiness and satisfaction in life that seems to be missing in other Japanese culture. The time they take to just be is what makes them the happiest. Material wealth is not something they worry about and so are able to focus on themselves and each other.
As far as my own happiness level goes I believe the most important things I need to do right now are:
- Start exercising
The beliefs I have about aging seem to all tie in together. They seem to be different heads of the same monster. For to me aging means loss of mobility, pain, dependence on others, addiction to pain meds, death and separation from loved ones.
To explain how this movie made me feel is as complex as the feelings themselves. At different parts I felt different …show more content…
I am a very negative person by nature. I tend to see the bad and focus on that. About 10 years I left my ex-husband and started on a journey to be happy. If I couldn’t be happy then at least be content. I studied people who seemed to always be smiling, asking questions, looking on the internet etcetera. Then I ran across the poem that is attributed to Mother Theresa “Do it anyway”. I have tried to live my life with that as my guiding principal ever since. To do one good deed a day for someone else. It can be something as small as smiling at someone. To remember that you need to take care of you, always. Charity is not for the other person but for you. There are always going to be people who are ready to cut you down, to make themselves feel better. Ignore them, you are as important as everyone else. Material things are fleeting, but family/friends are forever. Friendships are as vital to a happy life as oxygen is to breathing. Nobody gets out of this life alive so why not help others along the path we call life? The human spirit is an amazing thing that can overcome tragedy, even tragedy that seems insurmountable. Actually I am wrong there were a few things that I often wondered about but had never really seen in action so wasn’t sure about them. That is the communal living. The spending time with other people, supporting strangers just because they needed it. I always thought …show more content…
For not only do they work every day in some endeavor, they also make each other a priority. The interconnectedness that is present in their daily lives help to maintain the happiness and satisfaction in life that seems to be missing in other Japanese culture. The time they take to just be is what makes them the happiest. Material wealth is not something they worry about and so are able to focus on themselves and each other.
As far as my own happiness level goes I believe the most important things I need to do right now are:
- Start exercising