The path to a life of complete happiness does not exist, because life is full of many moments of different emotional intensity and it all depends on how we focus on walking our path. Living life being grateful for what you have is a happy way to live.
When we go through life doing good without expecting anything in return we travel a happy path. First we do the good we want to do and secondly, when we do good we must expect that this good returns to us in other positive ways and with other different actors, that is to say that the good that is returned comes from a different sphere from where we did the good.
Let me explain, when we do good we must release it. Our body releases endorphins coming from that great sensation of a good deed. By releasing it we don’t tie ourselves to someone in particular, that’s what I mean by releasing it, it means that we should not expect that the same person to whom we did good to have a great obligation to us, to return the good we did. By not expecting anything in return from the depths of our heart we avoid the frustration of knowing that the person to whom we did good to did us wrong in return.
The satisfaction of doing a good deed without seeing to whom is enough payment or should be enough payment for the happiness we feel when we do it. Do you know why? Because there is no good that we do that life will return it to us with evil. Life will always return a good for another good.
Did the person to whom you did a great favor decided to not be grateful? It doesn't matter! That should not affect us. Follow your path of good because life, which is what really matters to us, will thank you and it will be a thousand times better.
Don't feel frustrated or disappointed if you received retribution from someone you served in another opportunity when they needed you. Don't be disappointed by that. Go ahead, a life of fulfillment and satisfaction awaits you from other people because life will take care of that.
Many people forget to be grateful for the acts done by other people at times when they were in trouble. They think that they deserve everything and that they should not give back but rather that they should go for more benefits because they deserve it.
They think that they are in life to receive from everyone because they are lucky people who don’t deserve efforts to be happy, so they take things from others. Borrowing without giving back because others have more and what they take from them is not needed by their owners, this is a common way of thinking.
Taking life as a priority without effort to achieve merit or favor is a very common thing. To refer to the success that someone has because of his effort is something that many people venture to say and call "luck". They prefer to walk an adventurous path with luck than a path founded on effort.
It’s common to hear some people say and express about other people who have material goods or who have the ability to achieve goals that they have been very lucky. These people who talk about luck, because they see at a certain moment how someone obtains a merit for his effort but that they, the first ones, prefer to call it luck, don’t realize that behind those achievements there exists a consequence of a great planned effort.
The habit of waiting for good things to come in a pleasant way without having made any effort to earn them makes people deduce that everything in life is thanks to luck.
There is a popular phrase that says that we reap what we sow, this is nothing more than having life give us satisfaction for all the good deeds we have done. We go around the world helping, giving a word of encouragement, trying to change negative thoughts for positive ones, making people learn to be grateful for the few material things they have, making people see that even the most negative things that come into our lives can have a positive message. Everything that happens to us in life has a cause and effect reason.
If you go through the world thinking bad I assure you that many of the things that happen to you will be negative events. But if you always go through life with a positive mentality, it may happen that something bad happens to you, but it will surely be because you will be on the way to better situations.
Being grateful in life means that we should not only be grateful when things go well but we should also be grateful for every situation that comes our way. We tend to be grateful for the good things and when negative events happen we complain about our bad luck, our mentality leads us to think that what happened is because of our bad actions and that it came as a kind of punishment. We are far from thinking that this adverse situation came to heal us or to free us from worse things that don’t suit us. Thinking in a positive way we should be grateful for all the things that happen to us.
By changing our mentality we change our way of appreciating life and living each day as a gift, to live in the present is to live eternally grateful for the gift that living another day gives us. To live in gratitude is to be in agreement with the effort made and the goals achieved.
That's right! Mentality. Optimism. Change of perspective. Great things don't happen anytime but if we will just look closely trying to look for a different angle, there is still good in bad. At least for me, I always see the good in bad. I just need to look thoroughly to find that good. Negativity is never and will never be helpful.