This is my first blog of 2015 so I better make a good one lol! Sorry for the lack of posts everyone I can see my followers have increased even more its now been read by thousands daily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk and I've just been approached with a new opportunity and WOW seriously WOW!!!!(THANK YOU'S ALL so much for reading I hope your been inspired, for those of you already reading you must be fed up reading the same posts lol!I took some some time out to spend time with my family and friends over the holidays but can assure you I'm back for good now and I'm going to make sure I'm blogging daily this year!!!:-)
So over the Christmas I had a lot of catching up to do so as usual there were a lot of heart to hearts, debates and deep discussions with onecommon theme Happiness!!!
Isn't that just what we all want?? to be happy??? but at especially at certain times of the year when society says you should just automatically be happy now that sometimes can seem like the hardest thing for people to be. Take for instance christmas for those missing loved ones this can be a time of year that really brings it home there gone, or for all the single people wanting a relationship sometimes this can serve as a reminder that all there friends are coupled off, or maybe if your just not happy in your career or in general happiness can seem unattainable.
So what is the key to driving out the darkness as Martin Luther King states you can not drive out darkness with darkness, but only through light will darkness be beaten!!I read an article over the christmas which stated that if you asked a classroom full of kids who was the best painter they would each hold up their own, been an auntie to 12 wonderfully innocent children i have to agree with this point, but If the same question was put to a classroom full of adults who were skilled painters they would most likely name out famous painters!!!WHY?? can you associate with this???I CERTAINLY CAN now what do you think would have us do that in any similar incident??? I believe it to be FEAR ugly fear, fear of not been the same as everyone else, fear of standing out from the crowd, fear of people thinking you are vain or big headed or worse still better than them.
One point id like to meet here is the people that excel at things they are get at have not got this fear so firstly we are stopping ourselves from excelling and been the best we can be for fear that what? people will judge us for being good??or that we will fail??? I would rather fail then never try!
The problem is that somewhere along the line, for me it was probably around 1st class or 6 to those not familiar with Irelands education system children and young adults realise if you stand out you leave yourself open to ridicule from your peers. Being completely honest it has really only in the last few years that I have realised that true happiness does not come from finding people that like you, happiness and contentment comes from the inside that is why constantly looking for SOMEONE or SOMETHING to make us happy is a losing game.
But for many of us we get stuck in this frame of mind and society lends itself to this it teaches us that we need to be the perfect size with the perfect smile and perfect life etc we constantly compare ourselves to each other.
Now i am not for one minute suggesting you should not treat yourself well, care for your body and work at it to get it to be the best it can be the opposite would seem as though you are almost not grateful for yourself as a person. However what I suggesting is that as a human society we almost train ourselves from a young age to fit in and not stand out but to conform, this unfortunately can lead us to not expressing ourselves or our individuality in any way shape or form. This I believe is the darkness the darkness that creeps in that blocks out the light that leaves us far from happy, we are afraid to speak out or even just to simply be ourselves so we get stuck in this rut of unhappiness, now this only way to ESCAPE from this is to shake off the fear of been different!!!To stop fighting off our natural state to protect a persona invented as defence mechanism when we were teenagers, if everyone in your life is miserable and moaning chances are if you start been happy you'll get the usual "ah but sure your always happy/positive" but let them dig. Start doing what you love in every element of your life!!!Forget about what the neighbours will think/say lol to begin with they aren't very nice neighbours if they judge you anyway!!!!!what you need to do to be happy, express yourself in whatever you feel right, speak out, do not let society roof you in once you start doing this you will see a change in your life and then just remember to keep letting the light in and to attain a consistent happy state you must also create it.
Let me out it like this our mind is like a projector not a camera in that it does not take in, but merely gives out, we live in the feeling of our thinking not the feeling of the world now having a conversation about this today the easier way i can explain it is that if you got a flat tyre whilst driving along a motor way after realising it.......................................... you have two choices 1. to decide whether to become annoyed at this 2. to not! You will feel angry if you become angry at the situation but the world is not making you angry this has happened and you have chosen to become angry when in fact you could just accept that these things happen and remain happy. Realistically we our only ever one thought away from a completely different experience of being alive and you can apply this to any situation in your life just remember that.
I hope you take something from this!!:-)
Lots of love as always Annie xxx
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