Guess what I found yesterday? A fortune from a fortune cookie. I was at my little sister's soccer game (Go Purple Pandas!) and I saw a random fortune. I read it and it said "Don't pursue happiness - make it."That seemed like a cool fortune to me. It is true though, happiness is not something that you look for and hope you find, it is something that you need to create. Happiness is great, and it is true that you find it, but not by following someone else's plan. I have tried to be someone else, but it doesn't work, it doesn't make you happy.
Trying to be too cool or trying be that popular person doesn't work. Trying to be "unique" doesn't work either. It is great if you are, everyone can be, but you can tell if it's not genuine. If someone is trying to be overly different, it's not different at all. You're not going to be truly happy being someone or something you're not.
You need to just learn who you are; teenage years are about that learning I guess, but I feel bad for people that are not sure about taking that risk to learn. They don't want to be excluded or to be without friends, so they don't take that leap of faith to try it out. I am not one to talk, I tend to want to make other people happy, even when it hurts me. Trying to stand up for my self and not be pushed around is hard for me. I can stand up for other people just fine, it's standing up for myself that I have a hard time with. But I am starting to stand up for myself. At first it didn't do me much good... but now I am finding that I am happy and can find more ways to make myself happy.
I realized that I don't need to act like everyone is sweet and kind if they really aren't; girls are especially good at being vicious when they seem nice. With this new found idea, I have made some new friends, which I know stick up for me and are not trying to be better than me. This is what making your own happiness is I think. Sorry if this sounds like an essay or preachy, that fortune cookie just really got me thinking.
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