Hollywood Art Festival

Nowadays people seem to be suffering from an epidemic of unhappiness. Some of us seem to be constantly looking for something that we simply never quite seem to catch up to. What causes this discontent and how can we overcome it? We have thoughts and ideas in our mind about how things should be, how people should behave, and how life should look like. Because they are just ideas, they are not real. You may not even realize that you have these expectations. Unconsciously, you go about your life trying to live up to certain standards; you have no idea where they came from or why you have them but you blindly follow them because, well, you never thought to question them. We get so attached to them that when reality differs from these expectations, and it often does, we feel stress or discontent. This gap between the fantasies of how life should be and the reality causes people to feel like you are not enough, that life isn’t working, that the grass is greener somewhere else - anywhere else, and you have difficulty feeling happy because life is not as it should be. But you don’t know why or what to do about it. People may have even changed their circumstances - divorced and remarried, new job or career, new city – but the same feelings emerge, that sense that nothing is quite as it should be.

I’ve always been taught on various things like how to sit, how to eat, how to behave and in general how to live. But there is one thing nobody can teach me but me. And that would be “My policy” for life. When I come to think of it, I already have a few principles of my own. I always take time once in a while to just enjoy the moment. I never care what others think about how I look. Because, my mother thinks I’m cute, even if no one else does. I’m always there for a friend to try and give a gentle lift when in need. I focus on what is important for my life and search for the best route to attain it. And if I happen to fail in my attempts, I always persevere and plan my next move carefully. Because in the end, whatever you have been taught to do in your lifetime, what really makes your existence renowned is the deeds and actions that you leave behind.