—Peggy Cahn
It's okay to want to feel good all the time. Happiness is something we all deserve. However, there are often preparatory steps we need to take, a number of which will not bring joy, before we arrive at a place of sustained happiness.
The level of our pain at any particular moment
has prompted us to seek short-term highs. And with each attempt at a
quick "fix," we will be reminded that, just as with our many former
attempts, the high is very short-term.
Long-term happiness is not the byproduct of
short-term gratification. We don't have to earn happiness, exactly, but
we do have to discover where it's found. How fortunate we are to have
the program guiding our search. We will find happiness when we learn to
get quiet and listen to our inner selves. We will find happiness when we
focus less on our personal problems and more on the needs of others.
Many of us will need to redefine what happiness
is. Understanding our value and necessity to our circle of acquaintances
will bring us happiness, a happiness that will sustain us, and so will
gratitude for our friends, our growing health, our abstinence also
sustain us. Sincerely touching the soul of someone else can tap the well
of happiness within each of us.
I will find happiness. Searching within myself, I will patiently, trustingly share myself with others.
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