A few months ago, a gorgeous friend of mine said to me “Life is about creating your own happiness and life path, once you have your own inner happiness, everything else is a bonus”.
For these last few months I have thought, many a times, about this. This certainly feels like a very peaceful quote, something that is positive and enriching. I have not only thought about it, I’ve pulled it apart and twisted it around, spent time understanding what it really means to me as a person and to life and the purpose we all want to live.
As simple as it sounds, life really is about making it what you want. Choosing how you want to live life, the person you want to be and the path you want to follow, is really all we need to focus on. When you focus on creating your own happiness each and every day, everything on top of that really is the bonus. Whether that bonus relates to certain relationships, goals that come to fruition, opportunities, unexpected coincidences.
It has been a mind blowing WOW to realise that life isn’t about having someone or something to be happy, that we can’t afford to waste time placing our own happiness on hold because we feel that when ‘such and such happens, appears, does this, does that’ that then we will be happy. Happiness truly is within, once you have happiness and create happiness, everything in life is therefore a bonus, an added extra to your already self-made happiness..
And what a wonderful and comforting thought that is. I’m looking forward to many bonuses coming my way!
This is a quote that I will carry around with me for the rest of my days. So extremely grateful for that friend, who shared such a thought provoking piece of wisdom with me.
“You don’t need a reason to be happy, just a choice”
Kx