Today kicks off the first of 100 posts on not WHAT makes us happy but WHY. This is #100ways
I join you all to participate in both exploring the themes I post here as well as sharing your own tips and tricks for finding happiness in the simplest things in life. Not your Versace sunglasses, or your tickets to the Beyonce concert, but instead what inside of YOU makes YOU happy, and then projecting that outward to share with others.
Whether we like to admit it or not, we all seek happiness in everything we do, and almost always our intent behind our actions is to make ourselves HAPPY. So my first suggestion for a way to be happy is TRUSTING THE UNIVERSE.
There is a famous quote from Brazilian author Fernando Sabino that goes “No fim, tudo dá certo. Se não deu, ainda não chegou ao fim.”
Translated: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay then it’s not the end.”
This phrase is only relatable when we can trust and give the power to the universe around us. Everything is on a path to correcting itself and as long as we trust and believe that the universe (the place where we as a miracle exist!) has the proper plan for us in store, then we shall receive that rightful place.
Everything happens for a reason and every challenge and trial we face (even if it is not ideal) is something that makes us stronger and prepares us for other tribulations down the road. It gives us character, writes our story, shapes our souls and makes us compassionate.
As an impatient person myself, I constantly struggle with giving control up to the universe and letting fate take its course. But the more we fight it, the harder it is to end up where we were supposed to be all along. Fighting the path will not make it change course, it will only steepen the road.
…. so today, take a moment and allow the universe to make a choice for you. Let fate take its course on your life. Don’t plan every little detail of your day out, offer room for surprises and opportunity. Succumb to the unique charms of what YOU are meant to do. You have a story in the stars written for you, there’s nothing you can do to change it but instead trust that everything will be okay in the end, or else it isn’t the end 🙂
xo
L
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