{"id":427,"date":"2015-12-29T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thousandchances.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-12-29T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:28:14","slug":"chasing-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chasing<\/a><\/p>\n

Chasing happiness\u2026that is how I feel. Yet it evades me. Many times, just when I feel I\u2019ve found it, it slips through my fingers like quick sand, one minute I have it, the next minute I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

You must appreciate the happy moments, and believe me I do. I am grateful for the things I have, appreciate small things, big things.
\nNotice the way the first ray of sun hits the tree in front of our house just as I am pulling out of the driveway.<\/p>\n

Learnt to love fog, even though it scares the \u2026t out of me as I am driving home with my son in total foggy darkness, hoping that I don’t happen to meet a deer on our way.<\/p>\n

Appreciate those times when my son is still willing to cuddle, lets me kiss him and jumps into my bed after a bad dream he had.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the warmth of the fire on cold evenings.
\nGrateful for being able to soak in a tub full of hot water with frangipani bath oil.<\/p>\n

Proud to be able to plank continuously for over 8 minutes, only stopping to change positions.<\/p>\n

Grateful for each day that passes by without knee pain.
\nCould it be because of the wonderful climate of Madeira or the ASEA I\u2019ve started to take, don’t know. But I am grateful.<\/p>\n

Than there are the big things, like health, and the health of my loved ones,fingers crossed, so far so good.<\/p>\n

Happy to have the house of my dreams, glad to be able to spend our vacations here in Madeira, in a gorgeous house with the most amazing view of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

But, and that is a big BUT, there is one department I am not so good at\u00a0, that is the personal relationships. Still no progress.
\nMust be our karma or I don’t know. Maybe I should try regressive therapy, focus more on my inner child, really haven’t got a clue.<\/p>\n

I am so good at solving other\u2019s people\u2019s problems, easy to give advice.
\nWhy can\u2019t I see my own life clearly? Am I making the right choices, should I continue on my path, or should I take a different route?<\/p>\n

It has been 2 years, yet I haven’t figured out anything. Actually my life is even more complicated.<\/p>\n

People around me are moving forward, having their second or even third kid, taking on new jobs, new assignments, moving to a new county, new continent, falling in and out of love, things are happening in their lives.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine tells me that I should be happy, I get to have everything I ever wanted, just a bit from here, a bit from there\u2026but overall my life is good.<\/p>\n

I agree with her. But a small voice within me is whispering, actually becoming louder and louder.<\/p>\n

THIS IS NOT IT!<\/p>\n

What is wrong with me? Or could it be the hormones I am taking?<\/p>\n

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P.S.: Tomorrow I am back to my own self hopefully, and will continue on with our adventures in Madeira. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chasing happiness\u2026that is how I feel. Yet it evades me. Many times, just when I feel I\u2019ve found it, it slips through my fingers like quick sand, one minute I have it, the next minute I don\u2019t. You must appreciate the happy moments, and believe me I do. I am grateful for the things I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,34,4],"tags":[29,35,38,45,47],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holiday","category-home","category-madeira","tag-child","tag-family","tag-happiness","tag-home","tag-madeira","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandchances.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}