Halfway to happy

Just in case no one told you recently, you’re wonderful and capable and worthy of all your hopes and dreams.

Have you ever stopped and thought, “How lovely it is to be anything at all!”, even when the courage to take risks and the discipline to keep trying seems like a momentous uphill struggle.

…Because despite what you’ve been taught, you are not obligated to an unsatisfactory present. Every day we have the ability to change our circumstances and strive for something more than the moderately pleasant.

Happiness doesn’t lie in the consumption of socially constructed contentment. It flourishes in the independence of thought, and the authentic reflection of self.

The most important gift any of us can preserve from childhood, is the commitment to our dreams. Yet reassuringly, you'll find that you're not the first person to be distracted, confused and frustrated by the sickly sweet temptation of stability and comfort.

Yet regardless of what obstacles you’ve faced, the failure you have incurred, or whether you’re currently weighed down by a heavy sense of under-fulfillment and inner turmoil; you’ll never deal with anything more difficult than the negative thought processes of your own mind.

Wonderfully, dreams are not tarnishable. They don't care about your past or mundane present. You are not allocated a certain amount of ‘shots’, and their possibilities will always hold infinite potential for you whenever you are ready.

You see, our ambitions are never the problem. Just our interpretation of what they actually are. So as long as we keep looking to money, social conformity, popularity and conventional stability for true satisfaction, few of us will ever be captured with an intoxicating sense of purpose.

And really, what with the time-consuming nature of it all; school, university, a good job, savings, marriage, our own home and children; by the time we get the things we have been taught we want; our youth is gone, our hearts are heavy, our bones ache and the time wasted is irretrievable.

So if not today, or tomorrow, then when? At what point in our lives have we scheduled our dreams in the grand scheme of it all?

Truthfully, I’ve never been more disappointed in myself than when I’ve been alone, feeling low in the emptiness of my own heart after a long day of doing what I thought I should.

The only version of self our conscience will ever let us accept, is the one we hold our self secretly accountable to. The person who despite everything, continued to pursue the things they hoped, dreamed and always sought to achieve.