Day Six

Sometimes it's hard to be happy. Humans are born with such an extreme range of emotions that to stay on one for very long can be challenging. However, here is what I suggest: Feel your emotions. Feel them in every pore of your body, every thought of your head. Let them run through you. Tell someone everything that is bothering you, and cry long and hard. Then, move on.
Get past the negative stage and get on with life. Find something you enjoy- biking, singing, dancing, painting, anything that feeds your soul. Because negative emotions eat up your energy, and the only way to get it back is to do something you love and enjoy it fully. Don't just "have fun". Have the greatest, most joyful fun of your life. Smile, laugh, and don't let the sparkle on your eyes die out. LIVE!!!

Day Five

(continuation of Chloe's topic: Love) One of my friends and I have had tension over their tendency to get easily suspicious of their object of affection. They believe that everyone does bad stuff to everyone else, that bad stuff happens to everyone, even if there isn't really a logical reason for it. They got hurt once and now they won't allow themselves to trust again because they are protective of their feelings. Rightly so, of course. Why would you put yourself out there if you could get hurt? If you could re-experience all of that loss and pain and confusion. Somehow thinking your not good enough or that its somehow your fault. Why would you even bother? No, your not going to bother. Your done with all this lovey-dovey trust-y stuff. It's not worth it... Right? (and this is all my opinion obviously, so please don't get offended or defensive, whoever you are) Wrong. I don't believe that here would be any POINT to life if there was no love. Love is the single most important thing. And love, any type of love, whether to your best friend or your favorite auntie, requires a certain amount of trust. You trust another human with your feelings, time, thoughts, to whatever extent. Most importantly (and most relevant to their situation) is emotional love, couples love, love love. The kind of love that drives people to the great and noble extremes of devastating loss and ecstatic happiness. If you found a love like that (believe me when I say that they have!) wouldn't you agree that both partners trusting with their whole heart is the only way to make it work? How can you love with your whole heart if you can't trust with your whole heart? Love is trust. They are so closely tied in a healthy relationship that you cannot happily have one without the other. I truly, honestly and wholeheartedly believe that. I also believe in the two of them and it would simply break my heart if a simple thing like trust brought them any more grief.
thoughts?
comment?
what are you own beliefs and how do they compare to mine or my friend's?

Day Four

I don't know who I am or what I'm going to do in my life. I don't know much about politics, and I don't know who I can trust. But if there's one thing I believe in, it's love. Love has become extremely cliche, and everyone claims to understand it or just write it off as foolish. However, everything I know for sure involves love. I know that everyone is divinely good, life would not exist without love to keep it alive, and we all love each other, even if we don't know it yet. I once met a girl who told me that I had one of the brightest souls she had ever met, and I had only talked to her briefly. She recognized the good in me that I hadn't fully come to terms with yet. I know, for sure, that everyone has a bright light that is their life force. Even though it hides sometimes, it is always there and shining. When we give out love, the love comes back tenfold and our light glows that much brighter. So even when you can't find a joy, find love. Love never leaves. It never dies. And it always works for your greater good.

Day Three

My first try! Hey guys its Sophie! Would you care to join me on a quick exercise for a happy thought? Think about someone you love and ask yourself WHY you love them. What about them makes yo0u happy? Then ask yourself if you have any of those qualities or traits in YOURSELF. This exercise is a definite confidence-builder! And it is DEFIANTLY happy! Have a great, happy, confident day!

Day Two

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." ~Norm Papernick

If I had gone stark raving mad, then I would probably be dancing down the street naked right about now. Since I am not (though I think I might have in a dream once), then I must have found happiness! I think it's hard to measure happiness, but if you could, it might just be the number of times a day you laugh at how utterly wonderful it is to be alive. People look at me strangely sometimes when I do that and they ask, "What's the joke?"
I always answer, "Do you need a reason to be happy?"
I don't think so, but it doesn't matter whether we need a reason or not because every moment of our beautiful lives are filled with reasons, whether we won the lottery or we just noticed the little boy across the street with a huge smile on his face because he's not wearing socks.
So, basically, stop looking for reasons and just be! Be happy, be alive, be the wonderful person that you know you are.

Day One

Sophie and Chloe here! This is our BLOG OF HAPPINESS. Every day we will switch off and post something meant to brighten someone's day. Because, honestly, why not be happy? There is so much beauty and joy in the world, and all it takes is a little reminder to show you that it's always there, waiting for you to enjoy every moment you have.