My Artificial Happiness

I was reading a post on SnapChat one day (can I plug my Snap name?! OK!

mary-noJane, let's follow each other lol 😊 ) ok, back to the post… While on SnapChat one day, a girl I follow had a snap that read. “We are all just waiting for our happy ending”. And while I know taking screenshots on Snapchat is a big No No, I did it! Now, I did send her a message letting her know...so that makes it okay right? :-/ Because that post REALLY stuck to me, I had to! It was so true! Can you agree!? If so, say Amen and keep reading, lol.

I mean, truly, we all want to have whatever our happy ending is. Mine happens to be me, getting remarried (yes, I’ve been married before, stay tuned for that post), having another son, building a successful business and blog, retiring early enough to travel on an RV with my family, become old and grey with my man and sit around with family, making family traditions. I mean, there will be other stuff in between, but you get my point! As you were reading mine, maybe yours was similar, if not, YOU know what your happy ending is. Now let me ask you this, until you get THAT happy ending, what are the moments in between that make us happy? Are they just fillers? Things that keep us smiling and giving us hope to continue to press for that happy ending? That’s what I think they are, and I have titled those moments in my life, My Artificial Happiness. Truth be told, that was going to be the original name of my blog. But as I would sit and create post for that blog, I would find myself going back into my dark space. Thinking thoughts that only made me happy for a little while and feeling depressed in the end. Nope! Nope! Nope! That is NOT what I want to do! I want to start being more positive! I want to help others, like myself, who tend to over think SO much that we forget about the many good things we have going on and just become focused on what we THINK we need to change. See, really... artificial happiness isn’t a bad thing, that’s just where I would take it. But in reality, those moments of happiness that we get to have until our happy endings, are moments in our lives that we need. They DO give us hope to keep going, they DO give us smiles to share, and they DO make us feel good. These moments are moments that we will look back on when we reach our happy ending and smile about. But until then, enjoy each artificial happy moment like it’s the last you will have. Soak it up, sis! I’ll see you at your happy ending!

xO - Mary

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