Happy Holidays
I just wanted to wish all of my loyal readers a Happy Holidays. It has been both a good and a bad year for me on different fronts and I just wanted to reflect on how we sometimes take life for granted and forget why we are here. I really want to send out good will and peace towards all living things and allow us all to experience the joy that is our natural state. We live in this world and there are so many things that can make us happy, but there are also many things that can disrupt that happiness. But we choose how we react to certain events. If an event that we did not intend to happen happens, then we can either react to it or respond to it. If we react to it, we are simply doing what we are socially conditioned and biologically suited to do. If we respond, we do what it is we find natural, what we carefully choose and what brings us closer to joy. So much of our life is out of our control and if we decide to embrace joy on a global level, then I believe it will solve quite a bit of our problems. It may also help to live in the present. Present-minded thinking helps us be where we are right now and not somewhere in the past or off in the future. I can say that this is no easy task, but once you master it, life becomes better. With that said, I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holidays and to keep joy in mind because without it, there truly is no reason to live.