Sometimes the best thing to do in life is not to dream.
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I'm not being morbid or morose or more... not happy, this is a positive thing, just bare with me!
See I've noticed that a lot of unhappy folk are generally unhappy due to their unfulfilled "dreams".
They planned to have a high paying job by 25, a family by 30, retire by 35 and die in a mass orgy with many a nubile wench after a long and luxurious life.
So they do tend to get a bit put off when things don't go as planned.
And this happens a lot! People can get just as unhappy when they're not married by age 30 as they can be at hoping to eat a fish salad and ending up with a chicken one! It's like, "Oh woe is me! Life is cruel because, although I have everything else, I didn't get my fish salad! It hates me!" and the other cries of the sort of victim you tend to think twice about socializing with.
The fact is we come to expect certain things to happen in a certain way because that is what we want! But life doesn't always, or sometimes ever, play that way and what you are now might be nothing at all like you hoped and dreamed you'd be however many moons ago in the past.
The difference between happy people and miserable people is that happy people are flexible.
So I'm not a millionaire....yet. I have my health and loving friends and a hamster!
So I didn't get the promotion, there's always next time.
So I didn't get my sex change operation, I still look great in dresses.
(It's about time I mention that these are generalizations and don't all apply to me because otherwise I'd have some bigger issues then I realized...)
Happy people can hope for more but also be happy with what they have so that, should the more not go according to plan, well damn, the ride was still awesomely fun hey?!
Sometimes your dreams actually get in the way of finding and being the person you were meant to be. You have to know what dreams are worth hanging onto, and which should be set free. Tricky yes, but you usually get a few hints along the way. (Like when you're nose starts falling off, that might be a small hint that you've had enough plastic surgery already!)
Living life with a few less expectations of what you think you deserve or what you think should happen, is going to remove that bowling ball of stress you keep all wrapped up in your intestines! Because as we all know, whether we'll admit it or not, life is going to happen to you regardless of what you expect!
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* So did you expect that all then? :P
