Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Happiness Is A Choice: Choosing Happiness for My 50th Birthday

So today I turned fifty (wow still blown away by the significance of it all). Yay Happy 50th birthday to me. In my new tradition I decided to do a blog post to commemorate my birthday. Sigh lol true to form I am writing it at the last minute. I can be super organized about some things and not so organized about others like writing blog posts. Since I am trying to beat the clock (not biological that ship sailed a long time ago). I will be brief. 

I spent quite a bit of time prior to today mulling over what my 50th birthday blog post would be about. In my mind I made it mean plenty and overly significant. Needless to say lol my 50th birthday rolled around and I still was un-decided. Finally! it came to me let me write about choosing happiness and living a joyful life

The themes of happiness and joy have been rolling around in my head all year and I have decided for the second chapter of my life (is that what it is called after fifty?) I want to live a joyful life. I want to focus on and do only things that bring me joy and people who make me happy. What you focus on grows so choose happy

I have been mulling over the best 50th birthday gift I could give myself. I have lots of things I want to do (and lol I am yet to do even though my fiftieth year was the marker). However, most of them cannot be achieved overnight. So what can I do today, right now, everyday that would vastly improve my life? The answer to that, for me is simple, focus on the things that bring me joy. Do what makes me happy

So for all the young 'uns out there reading this (that would be anyone younger than me) and for my peers and older folks too. Today I suggest you focus on finding joy and choosing happiness in your life. 

Monday, November 21, 2011

Poetry Contest and Abstract Sunflower Painting

One of the websites I write for HubPages.com is running a prose and poetry contest this month (November). I submitted an entry titled, Sunshine Filled Yellow Rays an inspirational poem about depression. The poem is dedicated to a dear friend of mine who has been battling clinical depression for years, you can read the inspirational poem at Hubpages. Those of you who are artistically inclined may want to enter the contest the deadline is November 22nd, 12:00pm (PT). If you miss the contest it is still worth joining Hubpages.com you can earn money from articles you publish on any topic and it is a good way to generate income from your creative work. I created an abstract art painting to accompany my poetry contest entry. For the art piece I chose the subject matter of a sunflower for two reasons, I love the brilliant yellow color of sunflowers especially when contrasted against a blue sky and for me the sunflower represents happiness. Here is my abstract sunflower painting.

 Sunflower Painting: Abstract Art by Injete Chesoni
Acrylic Painting on Paper