Stumbling on Happiness

When you are working on a path to a happier, healthier life, you must always keep in mind that no matter where you are in life physically, mentally or spiritually every moment of the day offers you an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, the world, and others.

We are always on a continual journey of growth and learning. It is also important, however, to understand that you will never have all the answers and to not feel bad if maybe you believe you have not conducted yourself in the way you wished you could have in retrospect. We are all doing the very best we can in any moment given where we have been and what we know about life and ourselves.

They are the strangers you meet everyday, they are your family members, they are your co-workers. Open your eyes and your heart wider everyday and you will be able to see their wings with more clarity and strength.

It my firm belief that all people are good and that it is a lack of understanding, knowledge or various other factors that propel people to do things that might not be the best decision or act that could have been taken. But these choices do not make a person bad or another person better. It simply is a reflection of a person’s position in life. In other words, that person may know many things that another person doesn’t, but in another situation their poor choices reveal a need to learn much surrounding the details of that particular incident. It is a simple equation of have versus have not with regard to knowledge.

While it is very common to label another person based off his or her actions, I believe that it is important to instead bring understanding and compassion to light regarding the behavior of others. For example, just because you have done things in life you may not be proud of this does not encapsulate and define who you are as a person in a holistic sense. We have all done something we are not entirely proud of in our lives. This again, I believe is due to a lack of knowledge rather than from a place of ill intentions. For it is also my sincere belief that all people want to feel good and if a person had greater knowledge at the time he or she would have chosen the option that would have made him or her feel their best. Doing good things, makes a person feel good, period.