How to Never Be Sad

Happiness, I feel can only be brought out of anyone by three things: family and friends, achievements, and being grateful for what you have. If you get to the root of what happiness is you can’t describe it any other way than: not being in a state of sadness. To find the true meaning of happiness you have to find out what sadness truly is. And in my opinion sadness is a feeling that keeps you up at night, it’s a pit in your stomach, it’s a feeling that is ingrained in your memory. I figured that you would constantly be in a state of sadness without your loved ones and achieving everything you can while you are on this earth. But to live your life full of joy and happiness I think that the one thing you need to have is gratefulness. The thing about gratefulness is that it can never be taken away from you; it is a thing that stays with you forever. If you are blessed with the art of being grateful you will always be happy no matter what. You look at life everyday with joy for all the little things in life and no matter how bad your day was you can always find one reason why you are happy that you lived that day. This is a lens that I need to look life through, instead of wishing for the ways that my life could be better and the things that would make me happier. I need to look at the little things and why I am so grateful to have them. That way you or I will never have to experience sadness again.

Lock Down

COVID was a time in my life when I was met with freedom and many sacrifices. Since school was online I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted. Our schedules were clear for a year. A thing every kid wishes for. What should I do with all this free time I asked myself? I thought I should learn to surf. So I gathered a group of my friends and thought that we would learn to surf together. This was very convenient since we lived right next to the beach. Our first month was met with many challenges. But even though we sucked at surfing and would always get beat up time after time by the huge waves. We cherished every second we had on the water. Because we knew that we had been blessed with this year where we were freed from our stresses and worries that came with school. I look back at this time and think that it was a time in my life that I was the most happy and fulfilled to this very day. 

Our Dreams 

In the fifth grade, every time my friends and I would meet we would talk about our dreams and aspirations. Where we would be in ten years and how we would achieve these goals. These goals would always include traveling around the world, choosing from our many different career paths, and making the most amount of money humanly possible. I looked forward to these conversations because they were my escape from reality. It was a way to live another life or completely change the way I live and the way I am. In one conversation I would be traveling around the world in my private airplane. In the next story I would be leaking private Russian files that would save the world from World War III. I miss these wholesome conversations where we’d plan out every moment of our lives. We are getting to that scary point in our lives where we have to commit to that one story we have to live out. And to be honest I would do anything to go back in time to those days of dreaming. 

The Worst Sound In the Morning

Ring, ring, ring; has to be the worst thing to hear in the morning. You sprawl out on your bed trying your best to stay awake. Stumbling out of bed, longing to stay awake, you step down each stair with the fear of tumbling down. Half awake you head towards the table. You see colorful loops in a bowl full of milk. Crunching into each and every one of them, sending shock waves into your ears with every bite, on autopilot like you have done for sixteen years. Finally, getting into your conscious state, you are now able to comprehend. Rapidly, the feeling of disappointment floods your body. You now just realize that you have to repeat this same encounter four more times. It is Monday…

The Life of A High Schooler

Life right now is a roller coaster. I’m on autopilot during the weekdays, staying up till my eyelids give out, cranking out as many assignments as I can. Until I hit the weekends where I actually get to control my life: going to parties, hanging out with my friends, and sleeping in as late as my body lets me. The one thing that I have to tell myself over and over again is to make the most of what my high school journey has to offer whether it is when I am taking a test struggling to come up with some answers or when I am out partying with my friends till 5 A.M. No matter where I am on my roller coaster I have to always make sure that I am living in the moment and making the most out of my life. As a wise man once told me, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it” (Ferris Bueller). I know for a fact that I will look back on my life and remember all the good times and I do not want to live with any regrets.