Be Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier

What are paths to happiness and peaceful living everyday?  This has been a question that I have pondered for years.  Through out the years, as I have slowly chipping away many things that I thought it was “me” but really not and start substituting the space with behaviors, people and habits that enriches me, I discovered that my life has indeed being quite happy and peaceful.  (This doesn’t mean I am never upset or angry or being judgmental, it just means that I get over quicker and often even upset turned into some wonderful golden nugget insight after I looked deeper and I often end up feeling quite grateful afterward for the broader prospective I discovered as result from it).  But, I still couldn’t quite put my fingers on articulating what the path to happiness and peaceful living really look like.

This morning as I was roaming about in my home and in the grocery store doing grocery shopping (my frig. is completely empty!), it dawn on me that one clear path to happiness and peaceful live is definitely being drama free!!! 

I’ve notices one thing that it really made a difference to me is when I decided to stop being interested in dramas around me nor do I feel obligated that I must participate or engage in the drama that is unfolding in front of me in any shape or form (i.e. taking sides, gossiping, joining in making others wrong or someone right, feeling guilty for being who I am…)!  I stopped feeling I absolutely need to join any drama just to fit in this world.  As I stopped giving my interest to my friends’ sob stories, my own sob stories … funny thing happened:  my own sob stories disappeared; those friends who used to love to “stop” in to share their sob stories for hours disappeared.  I really thought I would miss them a lot!  But the incredible thing is I discovered that I really didn’t!  I thought I’ll be really lonely with no friends to “fill” my life anymore,  but instead I found my life got all filled up with one idea after another and one dream after another that I can’t wait to go execute them! (This website being one).  Also, different types of friends start showing up in my life; those that want to discuss their ideas, their dreams and what they are up to with me, not just their sob stories.  Wow, in hindsight, I should have made this trade long time ago!!

I decided I still love dramas, but just not in my life and in my surrounding.  If I want drama, I would happily pay the $10 to go see it in a movie theatre or just give myself permission to play couch potatoes for couple hours and catch some soap opera on TV.  But in my own life, I’m declaring a drama free zone.