Purpose. Spirit. Hope

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I really believe in being a happy person. I’ve never minded being called innocent, naive, trusting, ‘head-in-the-clouds’, or bubbly. As if those were insults instead of compliments in the world today.  I’m the girl whose first reaction is to smile. I smile at strangers and I try to be kind. I like being positive and possibly bringing positivity out in other people.

As I grew older, however, I just found in harder and harder to hold onto this core part of myself. As of late I find myself falling more and more easily into the pitfalls of cynicism, jealousy, frustration, pride and anger. That’s not what I want to turn into and I refuse to believe that this is the rite of growing up and that this signals my entry into the “real world”. I know who I am and who I want to remain: the happy-go-lucky girl who laughs until she can’t breathe and tries to turn the entire cloud into spun silver.

It’s actually a challenge staying cheerful: it’s something I have to remind myself to do, something I pray for, something I believe in. It’s hard to try and be peaceful instead of throwing a tantrum, to compromise instead of being selfish. Especially when avoiding confrontation, being passive and failing to fight are seen as some of the worst attributes in to have today.

This is where I try to figure out how to keep finding reasons to be happy day in and day out. Why? Because it’s so hard to forget how happy we deserve to be, and how grateful we should be for being so blessed.

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Creativity is Key

by toomie92

There’s this particular headspace you get into while doing creative works – while singing along loudly and quite tone-deafly, painting, doodling, writing, reading and dreaming – that just cleanses you of whatever negative things you’ve got buzzing about in your soul. It keeps you happy.