It’s a rainy day and you step outside surprised to discover an awesome rainbow arching across the sky. Amazed, you pause to enjoy it’s beauty. Delightful, yes, but have you ever had the time and opportunity and interest to find the end of one of those rainbows? Irish Legend has it that there is a pot of gold at the rainbows end. I took on this task and I was extremely unsuccessful. Whenever I moved towards it, it moved away from me. I now can’t be tempted to seek that illusionary pot of gold.
I understand, there is no “pot of gold” at the end of a rainbow.
Simply put, “Real personal happiness comes through self-discovery.” – Vernon Howard. Thrilling and happiness are two very different things. The world teaches otherwise. Now, my personal clarity and understanding changes everything in the way that I see what certain goals will give or not give me. There is nothing wrong with pursuing goals, have plenty if you wish, but get this, “if you are not happy right now, you won’t be when your goals are attained.”
Therefore, I must become so very clear on understanding happiness and temporary thrills. The maintenance of thrilling is constant. I’m utterly tired of suffering over misleading facts. I need sobering facts, true facts.
Therefore, seeing, I have been approaching my happiness all wrong is a delightful realization. Consequently, I can put down those old wrong “pot of Gold” ideas and pick-up something new, up lifting, unexplored within myself. Not needing anyone’s permission, I need only to do it. Experience it. Get this, I don’t even need my own approval, I can walk up the spiritual mountain and observe the complaining (everything can be used to help and lead me towards the high life).
If there’s one thing that can be gained from age and experience, it’s realizing what Steve said. Real personal happiness does not come from following the want machine inside. By the time I’m 65, haven’t I realized that nothing works? And that’s not a sad thing to realize . . . it’s a huge relief if I let it be . . . now I don’t have to do what I’ve felt obligated to do in order to be happy. Now I can choose the one thing I’ve neglected on the road to happiness . . . looking inside . . . self-discovery. It’s perfectly fine and natural to grow old, especially when we use it for self-discovery.