Tomorrow you’re going to see a million pictures from DJ’s celebrating a happy new year with their hands in the air. So instead, I would like to just write another message. A small reminder. We’re all being told to be happy, we’re taught to act happy even when we’re not, and we’re being sold the premise that constant happiness is a criteria for success. A sort of happiness nirvana we’re told to reach - and next to money and perhaps maybe fame, happiness is how someone is defined as successful. And with the millions of smiling, happy pictures tomorrow, I just wanted to remind you of this one thing. We reflect ourselves in what we see - and seeing nothing but instagram and facebook posts of supposedly successful, happy people, we all want to be happy 24/7. That must be what real success is all about. Constant happiness. The reality is that it’s not possible. What defines your success is not your ability to be perfectly happy every hour of every day. What defines your success is your ability to APPRECIATE. Your life is determined by your ability to embrace it with all its ups and downs, almost like a good movie, and to be thankful and appreciative for the entire ride and spectrum of feelings and emotions. Life is about appreciating the fact that you can go through the highest highs and lowest lows yet still breathe and sense and feel and experience every moment of what this strange thing called being alive is all about. It doesn’t matter if you are going through loss or celebrating new life in your family, life is about beginnings and endings, about the full human experience roller-coaster, about taking it all in - good and bad. People who never learn to appreciate are never really happy either. I’ve seen miserable people sit in million dollar mansions only speculating when they can perhaps afford to buy that boat they want, not realizing how insanely blessed they are in their lives. Any (sincerely) happy person will tell you that success is all about appreciation. That true happiness eventually comes from being able to appreciate even the emotions that hurt. But appreciation is hard to sell to people; after all, no-one who appreciates what they have ever went out to buy something new. People who appreciate rarely ever envy others. People who appreciate are harder to sell to. Because they are content, because they know life is about ups and downs, and their life is no more or less than any others because they go through hard times. For this new years, my biggest wish for you all is that you step back for a second, focus on life it self, see things from above and realize that you’re put on this earth to experience the full, sometimes incomprehensible range of human emotion, not just constant “happiness. After all, to use a cliché, sunshine doesn’t feel good without a little rain before it. So appreciate life, the entire, happy, sad, terrifying, wonderful, strange, funny and hurtful experience it can be. That is what life is about. Thats what defines your success - no matter who you are. When you quiet your mind, you hear everything. So lets celebrate 2014 for all the experiences it gave us, and have a 2015 full of appreciation for everyone and everything around you! Thats whats going to make it successful. 🎉🌃🎉✨
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:34:59 +0000
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