happiness is...

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This is my new mantra. This is my new direction of thought. I have decided to try and silence the voice in my head that tells me, I am not successful enough, good enough, thin enough, pretty enough to be happy. When did life change where suddenly we had a checklist in order to be happy? I mean, isn’t the desire to just BE HAPPY enough to BE HAPPY?

It’s hard. There are good days and bad days. And I know, am full aware, as we all are, that the voice we hear in our head is so much more negative then the ones we hear around us. It’s the irony of it all. We treat ourselves worse than we treat those we love. Why don’t we treat ourselves with that same respect, that same love? Would you tell your husband, wife, child or best friend that they just aren’t successful enough, good enough, thin enough, pretty enough to be happy? Of course not. But we feel no qualms that we tell ourselves that.

And worse than that. We believe it.

There is a great quote that keeps tumbling around in my head from Oprah’s last show. “There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright”

So I have decided to beat the living sh*t out of that person who speaks to me in that way. Seriously, “f*ck you!” voice-in-my-head. You may want to tell me that I am not successful enough, good enough, thin enough, pretty enough. But I don’t believe you anymore.

You are a bully! And no longer welcome here.

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Posted by Janet under happy list, life, musings