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How to Live a Perfect Life

It's that time of  year again! 
A time of wonder; wondering how 365 days can seem like the shortest time bestowed on man's life on earth. I can truthfully acknowledge  2017 as one of the shortest years of my life. Scientifically, my logic is all wrong. Theoretically and emotionally, I feel like January was barely 6 months ago! A lot has happened within a span of a year, a lot  of growing pains and strengths.
December being the month of reckoning, I  decided to look back on the last 11 months of 2017. Before writing this post, I decided to sit and think back to the beginning of 2017. Shockingly, I kid you not, it took me almost five minutes to play back all the memories of 2017. Shocking because, my wild wild thoughts really go wild! (Warning: 2017 jokes/allusions will be made) Five minutes was all it took to sum up my 2017; it couldn't even outlast the time it took for the eclipse.

Back to my 2017 recap. A  mere five minutes  was all I needed  to remember how the year went down, and  I did this by reminiscing on how it started. I thought back to how it all began. I had one resolution this year; TO BE HAPPY January blogpost and just like that, every action, every memory of 2017 went back to this one resolution.  After this very long introduction to my blog title, let me summarize and end my 2017 with these thoughts:

It's easy to fall back and never get up, it's easy to stop when you need to keep going. It's easy to follow a path that you were not meant to follow. It's easy to love and be loved, it's easy to get money, it's easy to buy a new house, it's easy to travel the world ,it's easy to look good, and it sure can be easy to live a happy life. In short, life's not always hard. Unfortunately it's in the ease of things that we forget how to live a happy life. We forget to be true  and above all, we forget to be REAL!  We focus on finding easy ways out of the realities of our lives. 
I believe that living a perfect life, means living a happy life. And you can never be happy if you don't acknowledge your reality. Sure it's easy to buy a car, but is it realistic to get one? Sure it's easy to look good, but is it realistic when I try to look good and end up not being myself. Sure it's easy to have my career goals in line, but is it realistic to jeopardize my own well-being for my dream job? I don't mean to come off philosophical/wiser-than-thou, but if there's something I have learnt in 2017 and will forever be grateful for is this;  To live a perfect life is to be truly happy, to pursue personal happiness based on my reality, and to  try help  others live their own happiness in the truest of ways. To be grateful in all things, cause life's absolutely EASY and REAL with God by my side.


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