Attaining True Happiness

    There come's a point in one's life where they can either choose to sink or swim...I choose to swim.  We have the chance each and every day to "carpe diem"....seize the day!!  After many years of agonizing over my weaknesses, I came to the realization that I actually had a choice.  I could stay in the same cycle of misery, or I could gain more inner strength and feel enabled in becoming the person I want to be.  Here is my story on how I began to find myself.

    Finding yourself and being at peace with who you are is the key to happiness.  For so long, I turned to the world around me to try to bring me the contentment I was looking for.  After fighting many battles, I finally won.  It's not the kind of car we drive, phone we use, clothes we wear, house we live in....that will bring us the happiness we strive for in life.  For so long, I was blinded by this "illusion" of fake happiness.  The true happiness for all of us lies deep inside.  After doing some good soul searching, I discovered this in the end.  I now feel truly blessed  and love myself for who I am, not who others want me to be.  I now am stronger than ever inside and see the world from a whole different perspective.  For the world is a beautiful place, and that feeling can't be taken away from me, as the most important things in my life have been, and it took facing my own harsh reality to see it that way.  

     The beauty in life comes from within each one of us.  We find this beauty when we choose to have a good attitude each day, love each other for who we are...the phrase "live and let live" comes to mind.  We have to accept that we can not change the external negative factors that ruminate around us each day, and not let them consume us. Like the song says..."open up your mind and see like me, open up your heart and you'll find love, love, love".

    I began to realize that I had been my own worst enemy up until now.  I fought to get the control back and this is when the truth around me became so apparent.  I have started seeing my strength of character.  For what some see as My Scarlet Letter for the truth I tell, I wear with pride.  In the end, when all is said and done, my story will have a happy ending and for this I am certain.