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August 3: Seasons

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August 3: Seasons

The other day I had the thought that I have more years behind me than ahead of me. I don't have any regrets about my life, and if I'm lucky, I still have a few decades to go before I shuffle off this mortal coil. However, it's sobering to realize you've lived longer than you have left to live, at least in this lifetime.

I've led a good life so far, and I've been lucky in many ways. I love to learn, and my life has been all about learning. I hope it continues to be. Even the difficult times have been learning experiences. I don't like to stagnate. I get bored easily and embrace change and new opportunities and challenges. I think you have to learn to make the best of things if you want to have any chance at happiness.

I look back on the seasons of my life, and for the most part, I smile. There have been highs and lows, but thankfully, more highs than lows and a whole lot of smooth sailing. I had a fairly happy spring, an awesome summer, and I'm enjoying autumn. I'm not quite ready for winter, but winter is coming whether we want it to or not. ;)

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I think you have to learn to make the best of things if you want to have any chance at happiness.

This.

This is a life lesson that we only learn through experiences at failing and succeeding, loving and losing.

We can’t control what happens to us, but we can do our best to make choices that support our happiness at that point in our lives.

Cheers to a life well lived! 🥂
ChampagneOnIce · 51-55, F
@CookieCrumbs Thank you. Yes, so true. I'm a mostly positive person, and I try to find the good. I've failed, and I've had periods of deep depression, but I've also succeeded more times than not, and there is always so much good if we let ourselves see it. Overall, I'm happy, and I am so grateful. :)

Salut, my friend! 🥂
@ChampagneOnIce
There is no perfectly happy life. If we continue to see the good and do our best to live the good in any way we can, we have already succeeded in living.
ChampagneOnIce · 51-55, F
@CookieCrumbs I think so, at least that's how I try to live. :)