15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy by Luminita D. Saviuc

Author:Luminita D. Saviuc
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-09T12:48:52+00:00

LESSONS IN LETTING GO

Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

—DENNIS PRAGER

Complaining, just like blaming and criticizing, sucks us dry. It keeps us in dark places, and it continues to feed this false idea that our lives will never get better until outside circumstances start to change. But the truth is that it’s not the outside world that determines how we feel on the inside, but rather how we feel on the inside that determines how we perceive the outside world.

If you’re happy and at peace with yourself, and if you know the reason for your existence and the purpose of your life, you have no interest in blaming, criticizing or complaining. Why? Because you’re too busy loving, living and enjoying your life.

It’s those who feel lost, who have no sense of direction and who can no longer remember what their path in life is who go around projecting their unhappiness into the world. It’s those who have disconnected from their own inner peace and who can no longer feel the abundance of love that flows from their hearts who can’t seem to find a way to be at peace with the world around them.

Jason, whom I have connected with through my blog, shared with me his personal experience about giving up complaining and negativity.

Ever since he was a young adult, Jason always seemed to have a reason to complain about everything that was going on in his life. He complained about his health, his family, his relationships, about the economy, about the weather, about his boss, his neighbors, and so on. No matter how much his friends, family and colleagues would try to encourage him, empower him and cheer him up, wanting him to look on the bright side of things, nothing really worked. It was only after his friends and family started avoiding him, no longer wanting to be in the presence of his negativity, that he decided to give up complaining and start looking for reasons to love and appreciate life. It wasn’t an easy lesson to learn, but it was worth it.

Life treats us the way we deep down inside expect to be treated, constantly giving us the things we feel worthy of receiving. And if we don’t like what we see, how we are being treated, if we are not happy with the things we are receiving, we shouldn’t complain. Instead, we should just change the way we perceive things.

We should just adjust our attitudes and behaviors toward every experience and every interaction life sends our way. Because only by doing so will we find the strength, the wisdom and the patience to live our lives like alchemists, transforming all our difficulties into opportunities, our wounds into wisdom and our own darkness into light.

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