Have you ever been in a situation or thought of. Life will get better when I have done so and so. For example life will get better when I get married, when I have a few kids, go to high school, my first date.
Then we get frustrated because our kids are too young, and we hope things will change when they are older.
Then we feel frustrated because they reach adolescence and we have to deal with them. Surely well be happier once they’ve grown out of their teens.
We tell ourselves that life will improve when our spouse gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can travel, when we finally retire.
But the truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not, then WHEN?
We dream that life is soon going to start. REAL life. But there’s always some obstacle along the way, some ordeal to get through, some work to be finished, some time to be given, some bill to be paid. Maybe then life will start?
If only we could understand that those obstacles ARE life. There is a definite road to happiness. First of all let me tell you what happiness is NOT. Swearing at each other, fighting, Binge drinking, smoking like a train, arguing, hating each other, picking on each other, ganging up, poker playing, gossiping, road raging, having a dirty home, and destroying self esteem. I can go on and on. To tell you the truth. Wickedness never was Happiness.
Now to keep us on the road of happiness and in the REAL world. Let’s stop waiting for work to finish, for the next pay cheque, for our mortgage to be paid off, for dad to take me fishing, for our next family trip. Theres is no better time than now to create the happiness in our lives.
