Gratitude, Honesty, and Humility

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As I go through my life, entering into my 30's next July, I am not just going to focus on liberty and all those big, fancy liberty concepts as I progress into later adulthood. I'm going to attempt to focus on achieving happiness as well, and just in general become a better person.


With what I've been through, a consistent positive attitude is hard to maintain. I have a lot of unresolved challenges and darkness that I more cope with than overcome at this point, but I'm sick of my negativity and cynicism. I couldn't have ended up in a better position for a year like this. 


     There are a couple major keys to happiness I have discovered, and the liberty and peace of mind that comes with finding a happy, joyful life.


The first one is gratitude. 


Gratitude is a major, massive component of joy, peace, and happiness. Without gratitude, none of us can truly be happy, and none of us can truly value or appreciate love that God gives us and our loved ones give as well.


The Second one is honesty


Lying makes for a bad foundation for your life and your relationships. Lying alienates friends and makes enemies. Being untruthful distorts your internal and external realities, making it hard to see clearly what reality is in your mind. One of the great keys to happiness and success in the long term is to tell the truth to the best of your ability all the time. But most importantly, be true to yourself. The truth will set you free, and you will find a joy in that freedom that any deceptive or addictive thing could never, and will never, bring you.


The third one is humility.


I struggle with this. A lot of people do. I want to take pride in my gifts and skills, and I want to be appreciated when I do something good. However, humility is an excellent strategy to keep your sanity, to keep your friends, to earn respect, and to navigate life with. Realizing that we are all equal in our mortality and humanity, we all die just as easily as the next, is a healthy state of mind. We should all keep ourselves from being put on a pedestal.


One of the most important components of humility is selflessness and valuing others over yourself. It is a much more noble approach to be humble and selfless in your engagement with the world. No one likes an arrogant person, and grandiosity is not an ideal mental state to be in. It can even be dangerous.


I must admit, staying consistent with these three things is very much a challenge for me.


I have problems with staying grateful, which leads me to not be true to myself, which in turn leads me to overcompensate my insecurities with arrogance about my knowledge and intellect that has at times bordered on grandiosity. I'm sorry for a lot of that.


I have hard time managing my moods, and my mood affects my language and attitude. I hate being the cynical, bitter person I can be at times.


I trust though, that God knows my heart. He knows that I want to be better. 


I am not better than anybody. I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, said a lot of things I'm not proud of, and imagined a lot of things I'm not proud of. I know everyone struggles. I also know everyone also has blessings. We're human, and we are part of this world together. 


I just want to be good. I want to be loved, and I want to love. I want to be faithful and have integrity. I want to have control of my mind. But most of all, above all things, I want to love and be loved by my God.

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