don’t waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind, the race is long. But in the end – it’s only with yourself.
you’ve heard that expression, right? “keeping up with the joneses”? let it go! what’s it prove? anything? nothing. and chances are it doesn’t make you one bit happier. if there’s one thing that i’ve learned, and have had to learn over and over and over again, is that i’m the only one that can make me happy. not stuff. not things. not other people.
surround yourself with people and things that make you happy – don’t go out and get things or hang around certain people because it makes other people happy, or it impresses other people. all that can do is hollow out your insides. make you shallow.
find your own depth. jealousy is a trait of the shallow. i’ve known many people in my past that have just *had* to have the latest whatever-it-may-be as soon as it was available. and what did that get himthem? well, a buttload of debt, for one thing. more importantly, a lack of respect. and if someone else happened to beat him them to whatever-it-was? oh, the anger. oh, the greenness with envy. so where’s his their happiness now? now that he they has have all these things? gone. it would have never lasted anyway.
as for me? i’m happy. do i have everything i want? well… maybe not. but do i have everything i need? absolutely. and i’m jealous of no one. it’s a good place to be.
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