Life doesn’t always go as planned…missed deadlines, chance encounters, job changes, relationship problems, health issues…but the beauty of living is being able to accept the complications and hurdles in life and learning to adjust our goals, and indeed our life, as a result. I’m no different than many of you. I recently learned this lesson…the hard way. It took awhile for me to understand that easy or difficult, we must all learn lessons in life and that the old cliché, life unscripted, clearly describes the world in which we live.

Most of us want a rewarding and happy life. But what will make life happy or rewarding? In the end, can we FIND happiness? I’ve pondered these questions for months. Recently, I came to the realization that most of the things we want in life we must go out and find…jobs, homes, friendships, relationships, etc. But, while looking for all these other things, the one thing I believe we don’t find is happiness. Rather, we MAKE our own happiness. To find happiness presumes it was lost in the first place. I don’t believe happiness is ever lost, but perhaps misguided ideals, goals or interests serve to blind us from feeling or experiencing the happiness we deserve, the happiness we want.

So, as I have challenged myself of late, I also challenge you…go out and MAKE your own happiness. Don’t wait for it to come to you. Life is unscripted and always will be. Who knows, that may be the purpose…to keep us on our toes so that we may always appreciate the happiness we hold.

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