Finding Peace, Joy, and Love

I never really looked for peace or joy. Love and balance were things I always aspired to. At mid-life now, when I look back on my earlier years, I started out life seeking to be happy.

If something wasn’t going to make me happy, I would avoid it. But happy desires are fickle. I realized that striving for happiness put me on an emotional roller coaster.

For a while things in life are great, and then things happen, and it isn’t so great again. It was a cycle I didn’t know how to get off. So as a healthy way, I sought a balanced lifestyle, to not have too much extreme of anything.

And not too much of any one activity that would be great for a while and then lead me down a path of disappointment.

Finding Joy

From there, I realized that it wasn’t happiness or balance that provided the needed answers. It was contentment I was seeking. Just being satisfied with the moment.

To always be thankful and share my experiences with others who weren’t so lucky in my fortunate areas. That’s the real joy, even if I experienced a temporary setback.

And when I say temporary, in one situation, it was 10 years. I moved back to the area I grew up in, and for 10 years nothing happened. No real outward showing of success, just years passing by.