On Happiness, people and life.

Today's thought on "My mind talking":

When it gets down to the quick of it, each of us has a different set of things that would really give us genuine happiness, a different set of things we are willing to overlook, and a different set of things we can't stand.

What eventually keeps us connected are our flaws. I like to think of flaws like perfume. Some brands of flaws are intolerable to some of us, whereas others are okay - tolerable, at the most. Yet other flaws are things we barely even notice, and some brands, we love because we can just connect with it for whatever reason. The choice is very personal, very unique. Not many individuals agree to the same extent on one brand or the other.

Our peer group eventually depends on these little things, since friendship is the one thing we can actually choose in life - most other relationships are what we are given, and have almost no choice in, eventually.

We sometimes have friends who are so different from us, and we still tend to have a special connection. Some relationships in life just cannot be named, branded, labelled or explained. They just happen. They are special, but best left unbranded and not dissected, analysed or questioned, caz that would only kill it.

It is when we meet people we just can't connect with or share views/ideas with that we miss those with whom friendship, in general was no effort or worry. It was just everywhere, like the air we breathed in, and it was really as easy as breathing.

Those times were special not because of the place we were in, but the company. We could tell each other just anything, and not feel judged. We weren't too judgmental or suspicious. We just took each moment as it came, not worrying about the next.

I believe that it is rare to meet people with whom there is hardly any worry where judgement is concerned, and it is even rarer when you share ideas on a topic and find your views to be the same. This is when friendship transcends the platonic exchange of greetings, tidings and ideas, and becomes kinship, which is a much deeper feeling - a genuine connection.

Occasionally, we get so lucky that we meet someone, who is practically the same person as you are. In these moments, the happiness is just inexplicable.

Either way, life is life, people will be people, and true friends will be friends, even when they don't talk anymore. Situations and circumstances change many things, but, in all honesty, the only true friend each person really has is himself/herself.

To be self aware and independent is a rare gift. With independence, discernment and confidence, the world is yours, because you are bound by nothing, not held back or tied down to anyone or anything - because, in reality, love and friendship is a good thing, but too much attachment only brings pain because there's simply too much to live up to.

The world is a huge place, where the permutations and combinations are seemingly endless. It's all in good fun, to make the best of the life that was given to us. God wouldn't have filled the world with the good and the bad if he didn't want us to experience it all.

Lessons in moral values were not given to us to live the life hermits. We're ordinary human beings for a reason. Those lessons were taught to us so that we could see every side to life - the good, the bad, the ugly - and still come back the way we went in, with probably just a little more of a story to tell. Those lessons just help us take all our experiences in life, and to know what to do with it. To eventually make the right decisions in life.

SO LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH, SMILE - MAKE THE BEST OUT OF EVERY MOMENT, CAZ YOU WILL ONLY REGRET WHAT YOU DIDN'T DO. Besides, life is too short to live with regret.

"At the end of the day, all you really have is your story. Just try to live a good one." (The Drover)