Robert Louis Stevenson said, ‘If your morals make you dreary, then depend upon it they are wrong…’
To be happy, then all you need do is declare it! Be as happy as you can always and in all ways, it is the first duty to ourselves and to others.
Our world suffers the daily slog of rhetoric from the cheerless, the gloomy souls who want to make others good and to conform rather than to be happy!
They threaten our lives from the moment we are children with intimidation of hellfire and have persecuted millions… today they propagate doubt and violence as the only tactic in a world that desperately needs strength of heart.
Stevenson’s words do not mean you need abandon your moral standards to seek happiness and self-indulgence, they simply remind us that our life is meant to be a truly joyful experience.
The wind running through the grass, the birdsong in the tree tops and our children rushing about in total abandon on a bright autumn day is enough to bring joy and that knowing smile that is always there inside us.
If we look for that joy more often and switch from the moralists and the speech-makers that we allow to surround us… most of which if we are honest is not a part of us, then we live not in fear but with the love of life and who we really are, it is to think less of hell and more of heaven here in our lives…
© Simon Lawrence
To be happy, then all you need do is declare it! Be as happy as you can always and in all ways, it is the first duty to ourselves and to others.
Our world suffers the daily slog of rhetoric from the cheerless, the gloomy souls who want to make others good and to conform rather than to be happy!
They threaten our lives from the moment we are children with intimidation of hellfire and have persecuted millions… today they propagate doubt and violence as the only tactic in a world that desperately needs strength of heart.
Stevenson’s words do not mean you need abandon your moral standards to seek happiness and self-indulgence, they simply remind us that our life is meant to be a truly joyful experience.
The wind running through the grass, the birdsong in the tree tops and our children rushing about in total abandon on a bright autumn day is enough to bring joy and that knowing smile that is always there inside us.
If we look for that joy more often and switch from the moralists and the speech-makers that we allow to surround us… most of which if we are honest is not a part of us, then we live not in fear but with the love of life and who we really are, it is to think less of hell and more of heaven here in our lives…
© Simon Lawrence