A happy mind makes for a happy life!!  

What i do is i just think of happy thoughts like peter pan. One time i was so drunk in a house party. I peed on the toilet but the pee scattered all over. Turns out there was someone there passed out with his head hanging by the toilet bowl. Lol. Memories like that make me laugh inside. :)

HI RTSEnterprise,

It is always interesting to see how ideas are permanent over time. What Lincoln said is so true today it makes you wonder why things in society stay the same or get worse!

On a personal level to keep my mind in a state of peace I tend to let it do what it wants, or come to compromises with it about certain things so we can both have an element of peace without breaking any laws.

A lot of what I do involves managing my life to make the best I can of it. One current example related to noise. I moved into a new place recently and the other people in this building (there are 3 apartments) like noise, especially my neighbours who also like parties late into the night. Now I hate noises of other people's lives intruding into mine, and so when this happened I reacted badly. Thinking about a few days later I decided the best thing to do is to always have noise on in the background when I am in the main area of the house. I don't like doing this because I really value silence, but it gives me mind something to focus on which we caused, and so it stays in a state of peace. I have also decided that I will probably try and find a new and quieter place when my lease is up for renewal, and in doing that I am hoping I can have a form of peace most of the time. It won't necessarily help when the parties are going on and I can hear them when trying to sleep, but it is something and makes living slightly more enjoyable.

In the long term I am just hoping I can find a niche in the world so I have somewhere I belong. Frankly though I am not sure society is really made for peaceful minds, Not anymore. I had been thinking that for a few days recently (since long before the noise stated) so reading that Lincoln almost agrees made me smile.

If I ever wrote something, or did a big study it would be in this sort of area so many thanks for posting this

All the best,
Dranz

Hi RTSEnterprise

Abe Lincoln was right your as happy and content as you allow yourself to be and it starts with a thought.

And your right when you say its not always easy because in all honesty it not easy to just pick yourself up out of a bad or sad mood. It take me a little while to get myself together ,but one thing that helps me is that I focus on the good things that have happened to me in my life as well as the good things that are to come in my life in the future and I try to remember that things are not always going to go as I planned thats just life and that everything that is happening to me is happening to someone else out there too who may have a much worse situation than my own.