LIFE ~ More than just a word?

I had my dad ask me this question a lot... what is true happiness and how can you achieve it? Although you could think these would be simple questions with the most simple of answers. But they're not. Not even close. I'm never quite sure what causes TRUE happiness, but I'm pretty darn close to knowing how to improve your life, to make it seem as if you ARE living a life full of happiness. It's not fake happiness, of course. It's 100% real, but everyone is unique in their own way, so you can't live by someone else's standards and expect to be happy.

I think it took me a long time to figure that out. Although I'm still very young, I consider myself intelligent, for I've already started to realize how life works, this early in life. Going through such hard things hasn't been easy. I know that I've had it good a lot more than others have, but I've been through things, seen things, and even done things that have consistently proven my intelligence and maturity is much higher than any of those my age. Sometimes I even feel as if I'm not the same age as some of my peers. I've started to think about things that they look at me and say, "Why does it matter?"

It matters because it's life. It matters because it's what people are having to go through day after day, while we sit here naive as ever and don't even realize it. It's like the generation I'm part of is completely oblivious to what's ACTUALLY going on around them.

Who cares if you have money? Who cares who've you've been with? Who freaking cares what you've done with the hot guy next door? I surely don't. I don't care if you've gone to parties and drank yourself to near death or just bad enough to cause you to vomit. I don't care that you've "done things" with the hottest guy in the school. I just don't care about things like that. THEY DON'T MATTER.

Which brings me back to True Happiness. Does it make you happy that you have a lot of money? Does it make you happy that you brag about "what you've done" with all the guys in the school. Does it make you happy that you like to tear people down? Betray them? Burn the bridges around you?

I surely hope that doesn't make you happy. But then again, how do I know? I can't read your mind. I've met some pretty messed up people, and every single one of them seems to enjoy hurting those around them. And frankly, I can't stand it anymore. I can't stand the fact that life is SO short we must enjoy EVERY moment of it, and some people waste their freaking time to tear down others.

GET A LIFE. Please. Don't worry about others. Worry about yourself, your own well-being, your close family and friends, and don't try to ruin someone else just because of envy or jealously. You should know by now that doing things out of spite is not a way to fix things. If you want things to become fixed, you must forgive what others have done to you, and move one with what's REALLY important. People will betray you. People will lie to you. People will go OUT of their way to be rude to you. That's just the way people are. That's just the way HUMANS are. And no human ( that I know of) is perfect. I'm not even perfect. I have many MANY flaws, but I live, day to day, trying to work on myself and fix those problems of mine. I even know several other people that do the same things... and I don't blame them.

Anyway, remember that True Happiness comes from inside the soul. They aren't just words if they don't have meaning. You must be at peace with yourself before you can truly be happy.