Live and Let Die

It has taken me a long time to understand why some people really admire the way that I live my life. I travel on the spur of the moment, I never seem to work a lot yet earn enough to get by, and I don't seem to think there is anything wrong with this. But why can't everyone do this? This is just what I choose to do. If I wake up and feel like working, I work. If I want to rest all day, I rest. If I want to on a backpacking trip, I go. What is happiness to you? Think deeply about it. And don't think in terms of only being happy if your children are happy. Of course you think that, so does everyone else. You reproduced because it is a natural thing to do. You want you children to succeed in life just like a mother bear wants her cubs to learn the necessary requirements in order to survive. I don't think people take enough responsibility in their lives. Do you know all of the ingredients in the food you eat? Do you know what Yellow5 is? Did you see Yellow 5 hanging off a tree before they added it to your drink? Do you know all of the chemicals that are present in the water you drink from your tap? Can you buy liquor on Sundays in all of the states? Can you prevent a deer from running out in front of your car? Most of the things in our lives are out of our control. So this means you are not free. Being happy to me means being free. Free to do whatever I feel like each day of my life. I was given a template of things to do in order to be happy but the path to happiness is difficult. My mind has a lot of resistance to work through but I like to think I'm making progress. If you want to be happy, just listen to what you want. You tell yourself what you want through your daily actions and thoughts. Just sit and listen. Grow your own food. You know exactly what is in your food if you grow and prepare it yourself. Once you start a garden, you will already start to feel happiness watching your plants grow. Don't work. If you don't like your job and don't want to work, then don't. You will sit around for a week or two and get bored. Then just go out and find a job that you feel like working. If you have no option but to continue working and put off these things that you want to do with your life, that is fine too. Just accept that this is what you are doing right now and stop letting your mind focus on what you would rather be doing. Every day is only as good as you make it. Each morning that you wake up you have the option of being happy or being miserable. Regardless of what happens to you each day, it is your choice how you want to handle the situations internally. Life doesn't have to be so planned out and serious. If you want to travel through Europe, go do it. What is physically holding you back? Just go and do it. It's time people stop dreaming of happiness or thinking when they die they will be happy in Heaven. Time is relative. You can't pass up this moment for something that may or may never happen in the future. You must do what you want right now. Listen to yourself and be happy.