A Journey For Happiness

I am happy with who I am.  That's the truth. I'm confident in my abilities, and I like who I am as a person. I'm not perfect or anything; actually, in comparison with the rest of the world, I am extremely mundane and average. I don't really have any distinctive characteristics that make me shine brighter than the rest of the world. I'm your average, flawed human with big dreams for the future. To begin, I'm a coward. This statement is totally contradictory with my previous words of being confident, but it's completely different than what I was talking about then. See, I'm utterly afraid of humiliation. Even the fear itself is shameful. Losing, failure, mistakes, etc., I avoid those with all costs. But I mean, nobody likes to lose. Nobody likes to be jeered. I'm trying to change; I want to be unafraid of making mistakes. I want to because to make mistakes is to grow. Also, I'm pretty arrogant and domineering. I guess this would be the pa...

"New Years is a time for new beginnings.  Now if I could just figure out where to start." - Melanie White 2016 feels like a good year. But then again, I say that about every year in hopes that luck will choose to shine on me. - posted exactly at 12:00 AM - 01/01/16. The mark of a new year. A new beginning. - I don't believe in a clean slate. "Having a clean slate" exists only literally having a slate that is clean - or at birth (well if you want  to count your time in the womb, that too). Every single day, the things you do go on that figurative slate - it's not just scribbled on, it's engraved. And no matter what you do, you can't start over. You can't erase. It's not a game - Life. There is no restart button, no pause or resume. And whatever is on that slate of yours will stay - Forever. But is that necessarily a bad thing? At the beginning of each year, your slate gets built on. All that stuff etched on your slat...