Changed.

Satisfaction in life really isn’t required. However…I do believe that man’s (especially in America) ultimate goal is to make himself happy. It’s rather selfish and addicting.

We all do “happiness” in different ways. For some happiness is money. Others like fashion or cars or girlfriends/boyfriends or drinking. Sometimes it’s food in excess or no food at all. Anything can be used to stuff or delay the looming emptiness in our hearts, minds and souls. We turn to everything but the actual happiness-Maker. I’ve done it and I’m sure you have too. Could happiness be an addiction? I think so.

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I could be wrong…but I believe these “coping mechanisms” are behaviors that come from needs not being met. These needs could be physical, emotional, spiritual…pretty much any kind of need. Instead of addressing them straight on and seeking God with our pains, we try not to feel or sometimes we freak out. Evidence of these habits comes into play especially when people are sad, lonely, frustrated or break up with their significant others.

***Example***There is a girl I sit next to in one of my English classes. I was asking her about how her week was going. For some reason, she confessed that she had drunk an entire bottle of wine the night before because her boyfriend had broken up with her the night before. She said it helped dull the thoughts in her head and fall asleep more quickly. If I had known her better…I probably would have hugged her. However, my family has told me that my personal space levels were messed up greatly when I moved to Hungary. Apparently, I get too close or something now…. so I restrained. Instead. I tried to express my sorrow for her heart and encourage her to feel instead of not dealing with her sorrow.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to be happy. I would say I’m the happiest I’ve been in a really long time. But happiness to me is more than a feeling. It is a feeling but it’s also a peace, contentment with who I am, where I am and where I’m going.  I have been changed in this area. I want you to experience that too. I don’t always do the greatest job of explaining…but I try. Because I have been changed or maybe I’m in the process of changing, I want my friends to be too.

Nothing is wasted. That’s not my head speaking. That’s my heart.