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The real meaning of happiness
Submitted by: Princess
Greenbelt, MDI am a 31 year old woman that is finding the real meaning of happiness...
My story is about a woman that has struggled all her life to find love and happiness, and that woman is me. Since I was a little girl I felt so unloved. Part of it was that my mother left my sister and I when we were very young, and we grew up with my father who had alcohol problems and my grandmother, and because my father was consumed by his addiction he didn’t know how to show affection to us. So years went by, I grew up, became a woman, but the feeling of emptiness never left me.
I moved to America when I was 20 years old, and saw my mother again after 14 years. I’ve been living here for 10 years now, and I have been in and out of unhappy relationships for the same time. I thought that if I have a man with me that it will cure that enormous need of love that I have in my heart, but all failed, and I know now that it didn’t work because something very important was missing. And that was ME, I didn’t have love for myself.
A friend talked to my about The Secret, I bought the book, and I started to realize that I needed a change. So I have been doing affirmations, positive thinking, and I thought that doing this will improve the current relationship that I was having at the time. But it wasn’t that way, my boyfriend ended up breaking up with me.
Now, 5 months after that, I understand why all this has been happening, because deep inside of me I pray for true happiness, and no one can deliver that to you. WE ARE THE OWNERS OF OUR HAPPINESS, that’s why I am with no men now, because life wanted to show me that I can do this on my own – that I don’t need to depend on anyone to be happy.
Life is changing so much. I feel so serene now like never before. It’s true… life will bring us what we pray for.