Learning From Your Mistakes !

                                                                    When people speak of happiness , what do you think it means to them ? When those same people pursue happiness what exactly are they trying to find ? Because as we all know quite well , happiness is made up of many shapes and forms . What makes you happy may be the exact opposite from someone else's perception of what it means and what is required by them .
                                                                   You see from experience , there are lots of self made obstacles that prevent you from ever reaching that ultimate destination . Most moments of happiness are fleeting . They stay just long enough to tease you . If given the chance , everyone would bottle that single moment of euphoria and replay it over and over and over . Never to be sickened by its continuous feeling of wanting it to last forever .
                                                                   In some instances , just the thought of achieving that feeling is enough to keep you going . Why can't everything be like this , you say to yourself . Why , just when everything is going so well someone or something comes along and screws everything up ? Well the simple answer to that is , that you were never made or intended to be deliriously happy morning , noon , and night . Its simply impossible , and that is why I said earlier , that happiness is simply a collection of moments in your life that conspire to confuse you .
                                                                  Another thing that messes up your chances of eternal happiness and bliss is people's inability to make the past the past . Things that might have happened over twenty , thirty and possibly forty years ago , still have the capacity to make your life a little uncomfortable , and in some cases downright nightmarish . We hold onto things that have no bearing on our immediate plans


. We rehash all sorts of things that may have gone wrong or made our existence on this planet as complicated and difficult as anyone can imagine . We just won't let go of things . I am a prime example , and I know a lot of others who are in the same boat . We , unknowns to ourselves prevent healing , prevent recovery , and most certainly prevent continuity in things we choose to pursue . These are the self made obstacles I spoke of earlier .
                                                                  It's a heavy burden to carry . And we always have to blame somebody . Somebody has to be responsible for the way I can feel . Somebody else has to be the reason I am in this hole that continues to deepen no matter how much I try and dig myself out of .
                                                                  Jealousy and why weren't things done in a different way rather than what really happened , would have made life easier . But then as we all know , life wasn't made to be easy was it ? Life is a journey of never ending screw ups , but what makes it all worthwhile is when you at some stage make some sense of it all . When you have those fleeting happiness injections . When you learn from your mistakes , cause believe me some people never do !