Hi All, This is my 1st blog where I'm hopefully going to say something interesting, thats for you to decide though. The reason I set up this blog was I felt I had a great deal to say on the way the world works currently and I didn't really have an outlet. Facebook updates are great but you only get just over 400 characters and I do tend to waffle on a bit!!

 

Happiness is the title and happiness we'll create. One thing that stops me, and I'm sure you, being happy is the constant urge to be as 'good' as someone else, or to have the thing everyone has. It's so built in to who we are now that 99.9% of the time we don't even realise we're doing it and how damaged we're becoming because of it. Example, Body image, Who said that wafer thin girls and super rippled men are who we all should be, I personally get dissatisfied when I slip out of fitness because I look around at blokes with bigger muscles with envious eyes. Not their issue, mine. Another Example, New Stuff, We have to have the newest, shiniest, prettiest thing out, be it a phone/car/computer/MP3 player/bike/clothes/jewelry/make up/the list is endless. Why? Because we are judged if we don't. Who judges us? Friends? They're not really friends if they do. Society? Society is created by us. I'll tell you who judges us more than anyone else, OURSELVES. If we can accept in ourselves that we don't need these things to feel good about us, the capability for feeling good really is with us, then we'll instantly feel better about ourselves.

 

It truly saddens me to see girls covered in make up because it makes them feel better about themselves, Why? They should feel fantastic about themselves anyway because they are them! It saddens me to see a parent put under massive pressures at birthday and christmas to buy the kids the newest most expensive items out, it cripples families and leads to more more more at the next event and it shouldn't. If we all accepted the kids don't need said shiny things then all of a sudden we'll have children back again! Wanting to play with basic stuff and not computer games and the like, interacting, not through a blue tooth headset, but face to face. It's us telling them that they should have this stuff by giving it to them. I used to get a can of coke on my birthday and I was grateful (possible exaggeration here, sorry mum!).

 

My point is that me, you and everyone you know are jointly responsible for whats happening around us, so what are we going to do folks? Thats easy, from this moment forward I pledge to you that I'm going to be grateful for what I have, happy with who I am right now and cut envy out of my life completely. Can you pledge the same, It will make a difference I promise but you have to stay strong with it.

 

I'm not saying that we're never going to HAVE better things or new stuff, what I'm saying to you is that its the desire and envious attitude that make us feel bad. If we concentrate our energy on being grateful and happy then the world around us will seem a fantastic place and we'll attract people and things we need to us without the bad feeling. We can then pass this happiness on to others and more important than anything else our own children will follow in our footsteps and lead a grateful and happy life. Who doesn't want that as a parent eh?

 

I'll leave the ramblings there for today, hope you stayed with it to the end and can help me make our own bit of the world happier.

 

Love to you all from my corner of Devon

 

Sean

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