“We are not here long enough to be living unhappy,” Daniel Chidiac.  It amazes me how many people live unhappily and we consider it normal.  We consider joy a strange state to be, a strange vibration to live in.  We all aspire to be happy and we claim we’re all looking for it yet we consistently do things that make us decidedly unhappy.  Why?  No other animal fights their instincts quite like that.  If they know something is wrong, they do their best to avoid or mitigate it.  If they don’t want to do something, they don’t do it.  If you’ve ever tried training a cat you get the idea.  Why do we live as if we have all the time in the world to make ourselves happy when we spend a lifetime doing the exact opposite?  There is no guarantee for tomorrow so there is no reason to not live fully today. 

There comes a point where you blink and suddenly a decade has gone by.  It doesn’t feel like it but the evidence is all around us.  Panic may set in as we wonder what happened to that time and seek to do something to make up for it. Time goes incredibly fast and we can waste a boatload of it repeating the same life day after day thinking we are living or doing what we have to do.  I don’t pretend that life is supposed to be all sunshine and happiness—we need the rain every now and then.  So we too need our moments to pause and consider, to heal, and to allow for growth.  But THAT is not the state we are meant to live in.  We are meant to grow and to face the light.  We are meant to show the world what we are made of.

Stop putting life on hold and postponing today’s joy for the possibility of a really good tomorrow.  That shit doesn’t come with a raincheck.  We each get one go around and it will slip away if you don’t seize the opportunity while you have it.  Consider what your life is like and consider what you wanted. Look at the gap in between.  Ask yourself how often do you wish you were doing something else?  How often are you talking about doing something different down the line when the time is right?  How often are you making the secure and safe choice instead of going after what you want?  I’m guilty of each of those things and I wasted a lot of years with my life on pause thinking I could pick it up again when I was ready.  That isn’t how it works.  We are here now and we are meant to live here now.  Don’t waste your time doing anything that doesn’t give a sense of joy and satisfaction.  And if you must, don’t dwell there.  Find the joy and you will live happily every day.