The Dummy's Guide To Happiness

After my last particularly raw entry, followed by an online absence of 3 days, i'm back.

Some of you noticed, and cared enough to drop a note/sms/email. Some of you noticed, but trusted enough in my own ability & strength to bounce back, hence save the note/sms/email. Some of you noticed, but did not care, afterall it's just some exaggerated, meaningless grouse to you. Others simply did not notice. But it's okay, it's alright. This is really what life is all about. We've all got our own lives to live, our own set of problems, our own list of priorities. At a particular time when our priorities and foci happen to align, we will be chums-of-the-century and each others' 24/7 hotlines. At other times, we are at best by-standers, silent observers who watch by the sidelines, spurred into action only by drastic, irreversible turn-of-events. Tragic.

Forgive me, I digress. I'm such a big gooey mess of contradiction-distraction-pessimism-scepticism these days, I sometimes can't think straight, or write straight. Tragic.

(At the rate I'm dispensing such negativity, I'd probably put off so many of you that soon, perhaps i'd be the only one reading my own blogs, & eventually, die a lonely spinster. Afterall, no one likes to hear/read about sad things all the time. But I'm not always such an unhappy, negative soul am I? Haha.)

Someone from some big organization got this from somewhere and decided to mass-mail it to its hordes of humble workers. I am no believer of any structured recipe to happiness. But in times of low, may this bring u (& me) some high. To Happiness. Cheers.

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You can't be all things to all people.

You can't do all things at once.

You can't do all things equally well.

You can't do all things better than everyone else.

Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.



So:

You have to find out who you are, and be that.

You have to decide what comes first, and do that.

You have to discover your strengths, and use them.

You have to learn not to compete with others,

Because no one else is in the contest of being you.



Then:

You will have learnt to accept your own uniqueness.

You will have learnt to set priorities and make decisions.

You will have learnt to live with your limitations.

You will have learnt to give yourself the respect that is due.

And you'll be a most vital mortal.

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To being a happy mortal. Cheers once more.

With all my remaining love,
Sunnytears.