Our consciousness makes it either this or that. What’s missing? Relationships? Maybe there are no bad relationships – that’s also a positive. “If your bride leaves you, you never know who’s actually lucky.” I have so much.
I liked a phrase I recently read: “As soon as you start thinking that your happiness would be much better if something were added, you immediately stop being happy.” Happiness, the feeling of fulfillment (of existence, life) is a very subjective concept. And it can absolutely be felt in any situation – any at all. And when there’s so much – here I am, driving around Florida in a nice car, dipping my feet in the Atlantic, enjoying the tropical beauty, while my friends in Moscow are freezing, poor things…
Everything is relative. I enjoy what I have. I don’t have many of the things others have, but they don’t have some things that I have. Why choose to suffer from what we lack when we can easily choose to be happy with what we have? This is the art I’ve been mastering for several years. And I (I hope) am getting closer to mastering this art.
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