As I may have mentioned in the last post, I was unfortunately struck down by a horrible bug, and was struggling to finish 2 x 2500 word essays in the span of 5 days. Now that I’ve finally conquered the virus and finished my two essays, I finally feel like myself again.
I happen to think that that’s half the key to being happy in life. It’s not about where you graduated or what your job is, but its all the small accomplishments you achieve in life that makes you happy. For years, I believed that happiness was something that would happen to me in the future by some arbitrary point in my life. Maybe if I graduated, I’d be happier. If I moved out of home, I’d be happier. If I had a boyfriend, I’d be happier. But then I realised if I waited for those big changes to happen for me to be happy then was I meant to stay miserable until then? Absolutely not. I had to learn how to be happy and how to enjoy my life right now, by making small changes to my life now. For example, joining a gym. I had been meaning to do so for months, maybe years, but I kept coming up with excuses not to. Finally, I bit the bullet and here I am, 6 weeks in and I feel great! Its such a small insignificant change but each day I go, I find a little joy in it. Finding the energy to actually get there, doing an entire workout and then jumping on the scales each week and seeing a change is such a victory for me.
The second half of that key to happiness is putting yourself out there. You cannot have good things happen to you by sitting at home doing nothing. You need to go out, push yourself. Find what it is that you wanna do, find what you have to offer the world and then do it. And yeah more often than not, you get rejected and hurt and you end up feeling bad. But once in a while, something will come back, whether its a job interview or an invite to a party and you’ll be glad you did it.
Life, happiness, its all about the small victories.
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The S Plan 