There are many excuses in the world for not being happy, and yet the alternative exists for you to be happy. If you are not feeling happy or content or useful or whatever you want to call the essence of feeling okay and good with life, you have chosen what you are feeling.
Whatever you are feeling right now, you have chosen it. You can feel any number of things, and what you feel now is what you chose. Everyone has the same list of possibilities. Move feeling good about yourself and life to the top of your list. Forget about alphabetical order. Put all the unwanted feelings in small print at the end of your list. Better yet, cross them off altogether.
You are not at the mercy of what the world hands you. You are at the mercy of your own thoughts. The dictator you live under is your own thinking. Raise your thoughts higher. If you want to jump higher, then you set the rope higher. Set higher standards of thinking for yourself. This is how you will erase the boundaries of unsatisfying thinking.
If you really loved yourself, would you serve yourself from a platter of unwanted foods? I think you would serve yourself delicacies. You would not even think of distasteful foods in the first place. You would not have to discard them. And your mind is greater than your stomach.
Beloveds, what you serve yourself, you are serving others. I know you would not serve your guests what you yourself do not want, yet when it comes to thoughts, that may be what you have been doing. You have perhaps offered suffering of one kind or another to your friends. You have perhaps offered emotions no one wants. You have perhaps offered discouragement and discontent. You have offered depressing thoughts, telling yourself you had to. Who told you, you had to?
Perhaps you have called feeling unhappy and talking about it as being honest. Do you honestly want to feel dejected? Do you honestly want to spread unhappiness? You may say you can only be who you are. I am saying that Who you are is not what you may have been speaking. When you are feeling what you would rather not feel, you are not being Who you are.
You are here on Earth to grow. You are not here to stay the same. You are certainly not here to proudly proclaim and defend that which you do not want to proclaim, what no one does. Thoughts that pull you down are weeds. You do not have to be proud of weeds. You do not have to rail against them either. Separate the wheat from the chaff. What have you been thinking, beloveds?
Perhaps you have held on to shoddy thinking without realizing you don't have to. Are you opposed to cleaning out a closet that has junk in it? It may take you a while to get around to it, yet you know removing clutter is a good thing to do. And yet when it comes to a closet of the mind crammed full of junk, you hold on to it as is, as if it were precious.
What is so precious about low-level thoughts that you would hold them to you, that you would hang them out like a flag? Is booing really better than cheering? What would make you think so?
When you move to a new country, you learn a new language.
I suggest that you are moving to a new country of full-blown positivity. Will you learn the language?
Even if you have not relocated in a new country yet, you can still learn the language. Don't tell yourself that you can't, or that you're being false to do so.
I implore you to abandon unhelpful thoughts like the plague. Come to a higher place, beloveds. Speak My language.