Contentment...

I truly believe that being content is a decision. It has nothing to do with how much money you have, how big your house is, how beautiful your wife is, how beautiful you are or how healthy your family is. A person has to make a conscious effort to be content. I can keep waiting for my life to get easier. I can wait for my job to pay more or to become less stressful, I can wait for my cancer treatments to be over and to be healthy again, I can wait until this week is over so I can get to the weekend. And then it happens… Monday comes back around, new sales goals come out, my visa bill arrives, my husband annoys me, my mom gets sick. And it goes on... The stress doesn’t end, the work doesn’t go away, my husband still isn’t perfect! If you live your life waiting for it to get better, you will NEVER be happy! Life can be hard, sometimes really really hard! No one is perfect and bad things happen. If we can somehow, just be content in the moment, the happier we will be. Someone is always going to be richer than us, have a better job than us, have a better body than us and come across like they have it all together. But guess what? They have the same insecurities, the same marital problems, the same dirty clothes and a lot of the same struggles. It’s not what life hands you, it’s how you handle life. (Did I just make that up by myself? – Heaven help me if someone actually reads this!) I think the best example of this is the whole situation with Tiger Woods. Talk about someone having it all! Can you imagine life being any better than what Tiger Woods woke up to every morning? I mean, seriously!!!! And given all of that, he made a choice to put his career, his marriage, his family, his ENTIRE life in jeopardy and could possibly lose it all. He wasn’t content. It really goes to show you that no matter what you have going on, only you can choose to be happy, to appreciate, to cherish, to be content!