cest quand le bonheur! When happiness does happen
on se persuade souvent soi meme que la vie sera meilleure apres setre marié apres avoir eu un enfant et ensuite apres en avoir eu un autre.
plus tard on se sent frustré parce quenos enfants ne sont pas encore assez grand et on pense que lon sera mieux quand ils le seront.
puis on se fruste parce quils sont adolescents et que cest une etape difficile a vivre pour nous on est alors convaincus que lon sera plus heureux quand ils auront passé cette étape.
on se dit que notre vie sera complete quand les chose iront mieux pour notre conjoint.
quand on possedera une meilleure voiture ou une plus grande maison quand on pourra aller en vacance quand on sera a la retraite.
la vérité est quil ny a pas de meilleur moment pour etre heureux que le moment présent.
si ce nest pas maintenant quand.
ta vie sera toujours pleine de défis a atteindre et de projets a terminer.
il est préférable de ladmettre et de décider detre heureux de toutes facons.
pendant longtemps jai pensé que ma vie allait enfin commencer la vraie vie mais il avait toujours un obstacle sur le chemin quelque chose quil fallait résoudre en premier un theme non terminé un temps a passer une dette a payer et alors la la vie allait commencer.
jusqua ce que je me rende compte que ces obstacles étaient justement ma vie.
cela ma aidé a comprendre quil ny a pas un chemin qui mene au bonheur mais bien que le bonheur ces le chemin lui meme et quil se vit au quotidien.
ainsi amasses chaque moment que tu vie tel des trésors a partager avec ceux que tu chéris et rappelles toi que le temps nattend pas arretes dattendre de terminer lecole quon augmente ton salaire de perdre dix livre de te marier davoir des enfant quetes enfants partent de la maison ou simplement le vendredi soir le dimanche matin le printemps lété lautomne ou lhiver ou de mourir pour etre heureux.
le bonheur est une trajectoire et non une destination.
il est au présent et non au future.
le bonheur est en toi maintenant et non devant toi demain ou plus tard encore.
alors travailles comme si tu navais pas besoin dargent.
aimes comme si jamais personne ne tavait fait souffrir et danse comme si personne ne te regardait.
We are often persuading ourselves that life will be better once we have been married, after having birthed a child, then another one.
Later we feel frustrated because our children are not yet old enough and we think that it will be better when they are grown up.
Then we are frustrated because they are teenagers and that it is a difficult period for us to live. We are then convinced that we will be much happier when they have bypassed this period.
We rationalize that our life will be fulfilled when things are better for our spouse.
When we possess a better car or a larger house, when we can go on holidays, when we are retired.
The truth is that there is not any time better than now to be happy .
If not now, when?
Your life will always be full of challenges to be reached and of projects to be achieved.
Anyway, it is better to admit it and to decide to be happy.
For a long time I thought that my life was about to begin at last, the true life, but there always had been an obstacle on the path, something to be resolved first, an unachieved theme, a moment to spend, a bill to be paid, then life was supposed to begin.
Until I realized that those impediments were my life indeed.
It has helped me to understand that there is no path that leads to happiness, but that happiness is the path itself and that it is lived daily.
Therefore, amass each moment that you live as if they were treasures to share with those that you love and remember that time never waits. Stop waiting to end school, to get an increase of your salary, to shed 10 pounds, to marry, to have children, that your children leave the house or simply Friday night, Sunday morning, Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter or to die to be happy.
Happiness is a trajectory not a destination.
Happiness belongs to the now, not to the future.
Happiness is within you now and not in front of you tomorrow or even later.
Hence just work as if you did not need the money.
Love as if no one had ever made you suffer and dance as if no one was watching you.



Thank-you, Merci.
Lovely thoughts. Words to live by, to dream by, and to celebrate.
TYF