This way of life we have today in the western world has
become very complicated. In our world today we grasp for materialistic things
that give us pleasure. Do we now have pleasure and love mixed up. Things
enhance our lives and bring many positives to this way of life we live. But if
we are not happy then what is the point. Is what we perceive to be rich
pickings actually working to complicate our things. So in this game of life how
do we sustain happiness simply by our love for life? We could potentially be
lotto winners and be miserable every day of our lives whatever we buy. We may
have short term happiness and we may perceive it to enhance our quality of
things but this will surely drain away as we become bored of our new toys. So
how do we sustain and learn to live this way of life we want. At the present
time there is an under current that is playing through in shops and malls
everywhere, shops that sell lovely home articles with messages on them. One
that has become very popular simply says 'enjoy the simple things'.
If we can grasp this simple but powerful message, can we
actually sustain happiness by taking pleasure from the simple things, if we can;
the world will become a whole lot happier. But what are those simple things
that bring us that we all wish to have. Once the layers are stripped away and
you are left with the very basics, the simple things are the things that are
left. We seemed to have taken the love and fun away from the things we must do
to sustain ourselves and changed our mind set from a want to, to a must do, this
can directly impact us. A very subtle change in wording but potentially a big
psychological impact. Detracting us from the real world and pushing us to a
world that is potentially superficial.
A
simple example of this would be a dog owner. A happy dog owner will want to
walk his dog; an unhappy dog owner must walk his dog. For me this learning has
made a massive difference and led me to this way of life I live now, one day I
actually caught myself feeling like the example above, if you can recognise the
thought change early it gives you the ability to challenge it so the argue to
win technique can get you back to the want to quickly. So life is love of the
simple things, maybe we should all get back to wanting to walk the dog, cook
the dinner, living healthy and staying in cosy having a chat instead of looking
at it as a must do? This would have a simple but huge impact on the quality of
our worlds as we journey through this game we all share.
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