Being Happy - Patience

[ianvass]

One of the keys of living a happy life is found in the phrase, "Expectations are premeditated resentments". We talk all the time about how we expect someone to do this, or expect them to say that (whether in business or personal lives, it's the same), and when they don't, we get angry, hurt, depressed, etc.

While I could have a whole post dedicated

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[vesper_evensong]

Thanks! I think I really needed to hear that. It helped to see that I was actually more on course for what I am trying to be and become than what I fear I am. Maybe that makes less sense than I think it does... but it applies a lot to me, so thank you for writing this. It was affirming to me what I have felt I was trying to aim for.

[ianvass]

I'm glad to hear! These little posts on being happy have been a good way for me to get some of my thoughts down on paper, and if anyone gets anything out them, it's a happy accident. :)

[vesper_evensong]

On things like this I don't believe in accidents. :) I believe that you wrote that for your own reasons, but I saw it because I needed to. I've had far too many "happy accidents" at just the right time in my life to believe that any other force is behind it other than my Father in Heaven who really wants to help point me in the right direction. So thanks! Unknowingly you became a message deliverer, and it was good to hear.

[ianvass]

Yep, Heavenly Father does group rates. :) One person's blessing and/or trial is a lot of other folks' blessing and/or trial. Glad to know I was in the right place doing the right thing at the right time !