What I’m starting to realize more and more over time is that you have to fight for your happiness in life. For those of us who are fortunate, there is an initial period of happiness that we are granted through the innocence of our adolescence. At some point along the way, however, our innocence is taken away from us. This process can be gradual or it can be a dramatic, life-changing, experience; in either case, at this point we begin to realize the complexities of the world and the people within it and that things aren’t as simple as we once thought. Through these realizations, the world becomes a colder, less familiar place than the one we thought we knew. This is when it is most important for us to realize that we have a fight on our hands.
The reality of it all is that we all will experience moments of sadness and disappointment. Things will not always go our way. That’s why we have to have some fight within us to carry us through these moments of hardship. It’s the rare individual that happiness is handed to without any trials or tribulations. The true question is are we willing to fight for our happiness or do we let life get the best of us? Are we willing to take a couple of bumps and bruises in pursuit of something greater or does fear of more hurt and pain cause us to shy away from our God-given right to be happy?
And when our good times do come, we must not get full of ourselves, especially knowing how quickly things can change and how fragile life is. The humble person appreciates life’s blessings for however long that we have them. We know that we will have our ups and downs. We have to have the fight and the strength within ourselves to make sure that our good times are more frequent visitors to our lives than our bad times are. I hope that we all are ready for a hell of a fight because our happiness is out there.
Cheers,
JIP
JIP
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