Happiness is a human emotion that is sometime felt only for a brief time, and sometimes, for some people, it will last their whole lives.

A lot of us that have been unhappy, have brought it upon ourselves by the choices we made. Either out of stupidity, being too young or out of fear.  Sometimes we fear happiness, especially if we have been thru more than our fair share of difficult traumas.  It can make us not trust happiness when it is right in front of us, so sometimes we self-sabotage as a way of self-preservation.  We will ruin our own happiness before it can ruin us.  But that only leads to more unhappiness and eventually to misery.

We can’t let fear stand in the way of our happiness though. We must learn to follow our hearts not our minds and take the chances we are given in this life to be happy.  Because if we don’t, years will pass us by and we will have wasted our lives living sad and unfulfilled.  We will wake up one day and wish we could go back and take every chance and risk necessary to have a different outcome.

But, we can’t go back. We can only go forward and hope that another chance at it or some semblance of happiness will come back around at some point.  Be it thru a new experience or a reborn experience from our past.

I tell you this out of my own personal experience, in the hopes that whoever reads this will not let anything or anyone hold them back from finding happiness. Life is too short to not take every shot at it you can.

I was given MY 2^nd chance and I took ever risk and moved every mountain I had to, to take my shot again.  It was and is the best thing I have ever done.  There was nothing on earth or beyond that was going to hold me back or keep me from taking a huge leap of faith to find my happiness.  I listened to my heart.  I am so very thankful that I did.

By listening to my heart and taking the chance I now have the happy life, the life I was always meant to live. I have the best, most wonderful man in the world again.  He is my partner, my best friend and my husband.  He is my other half, my soulmate and I plan on spending the rest of my days making him as happy as he has and does make me.

He fills me with excitement and he takes care of me like no other. He makes me laugh every day and cares about who I am, what I want and what I need.  Yes, he drives me crazy sometimes but he is everything I want and need from now on thru eternity, because I love his kind of crazy, I love him.  I love him with every fiber of my being and he makes sure I feel how very much he loves me.  THAT my friend is true unadulterated happiness!

My point for this blog post is that no matter what, always follow your heart, take the chances and risks, don’t be afraid of anything that stands in your way of happiness. Instead face it, fight it and walk thru it to get to your happiness.  Don’t waste one more second either, because every minute you’re not happy is a minute wasted and a minute you can’t get back.