Manifesto for 2012 and Beyond

A Manifesto for Happiness!

OK, so let’s get down to the basics. What really counts in life?

Your health and your happiness

Which means your life and the people you love – and maybe that they love you back?

Of course, you need a roof over your head, the clothes on your back and enough to live on...

But what else really counts? Everything else is incidental.

So much of what we long for really adds nothing to the value of our lives.

We become blind to this fact – or at least I became blind to it!

I don’t know when I started to want more. I know that several times I’ve deliberately chosen to step off the conveyor belt but somehow I seem to get sucked straight back onto it again without even realising it...

Or perhaps because I think it’s the only way to go

I’ve lost sight or lost faith in the other ways ahead...

Or I’ve tried to keep up with those around me who are heading that way – including those I love – I don’t want to be left behind!

And in doing so I start to drag others along with me – two little people firmly on that little conveyor belt and aspiring to all those things that seem to lie up ahead

But what are we heading towards? We are driven by fear, not by desire – fear to be left behind more than desire for those things that deep down we know are not really important at all...

So I have decided that 2012 is the year

The year in which I say “Enough is enough!”

I do not need more

I already have so much!

And I shall learn to LIVE with all that I have (and with all that I haven’t) and to be at peace.

And I shall do my best to pass that message on to all the people in my life.

My epitaph? She was herself. She brought light to our lives! She loved and was loved.

That is all. That is enough!

Does this resonate with you? Please share if it does!