"Every morning when i open my eyes i say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and i'm going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

Monday, November 1, 2010

Happiness and Relationships

Complaining vs. Fixing vs. Accepting:
Lots of people spend their time with their significant other complaining or trying to “fix” the other person; Rather than accepting who they are and everything they came with. Why go into a relationship where all you do is complain about each other? Complaining doesn’t solve anything. You may very well think it does but no it doesn’t it just makes matters worse. Fixing doesn’t solve anything either, it sometimes make the person feel as though they are not good enough for you. No one ever wants to feel this way. This is when I little thing I call accepting comes in to play. You know that he or she likes to travel and go to different places, sometimes they might even be out late. You have to accept the fact that he or she loves doing that, don’t try and fix it or complain about! Accept it maybe if you try it you might enjoy it yourself.
Core Self
Before you go into a relationship you must know yourself. You must know what you like to do, what you don’t like to do and things you wouldn’t mind doing. This is all about figuring out your core self. If you go into a relationship or anything else in your life not knowing who you are you then you might find yourself miserable. You might go into the relationship thinking maybe this won’t be too bad or I can give it a try. You may try it and hate it; you would save yourself less trouble if you know yourself beforehand. If you know or core self and so does your partner then you can at least make an effort to make the relationship work. Both of you will learn to accept each other and then you both will grow as a whole. I learn from experience.
Real Love vs. "the Ideal"
You always hear on my movies about how love is supposed to be a fairly tail ending and you both live happily ever after. You both never fight and everything is all smiles and no hardships at all. That is what you call “ideal” love in my eyes. Real love is never is all smiles and no hardships. There will be ups and downs but that’s what makes the love grow fonder. You both stick with each other through those times and realize that you both can conquer anything. That’s real love not the love you see on television. Television is just an over exaggeration of the truth and what they want you to believe. Don’t believe everything you see on television.

1 comment:

  1. I really like your writing and I agree with all your ideas. For the core self paragraph maybe you can give an example of what makes you who you are.

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