Powerless

Do you find it hard to resist chocolate cake, even though you’re on a diet? Do you end up buying too many clothes, even though you’ve made a careful budget? Did you accidentally catch someone’s eye on your way to work this morning? And, if they smiled at you, did you find yourself automatically smiling back?

I find it really difficult to stick with my goals at times.

But when you’re attempting change in your life, we often need to forsake some short-term pleasures for the sake of happiness over the longer-term.

The various things that appeal to me in the moment – like eating chocolate, buying some new clothes, talking to a friend, watching TV – are all ones that will bring me some immediate gratification.

My long-term goals are more important to me. In fact, they’ll probably bring me much more happiness over time. But I really find it very difficult to find a way to balance that future happiness with my moment-by-moment impulses.

But these short term happiness are really that bad?? I don’t feel so.

I think the reasons why I struggle to stay committed to big goals is because they seem so far off to me.

Arghhhh….. It’s hard to resist something right there in front of you!!!

Help me out!! Do you have any tips or ideas for balancing short-term and long-term happiness?

life goes on

I’m now in a phase of a time in which, a face flashes in my mind whenever I am happy or sad. The same face flashes every time I go to sleep at night. That is the face that come to my mind as soon as I wake up. That is the face that brings ample smiles on my face. That face makes me feel good. Feel wanted and special. Perhaps this can last only for a while or may be nothing can be changed much. Nothing apart from the face.

Yes, anything and anyone is replaceable.

And in all honestly it’s not tough. Some things and people are meant to be forgotten. But again its not easy to forget until it’s been replaced. Maybe it can be done otherwise but this is how it works for me. New and improved is always better they say. No pun intended.

When I wanted a new phone, it did not take me five minutes to dump the old and change my sim card into it. Yeah I mourned for the old one for a few days and now that's the last thing on my mind. Or be it my white favourite earrings, my favourite wallet. It happens, life moves on.

No, I'm not comparing people to materials here. But if you look at it that way, you realize that it is not entirely wrong. People come, people go. That's life. It’s a pity I did not see it this way earlier. No matter what, you need to live. With whatever you have. It is not the same I agree, but in some time it will be. So I'm not complaining. People can be replaced too.

Provided you want to do that.