Originally Posted by
RH Clark
I think everyone is fortunate in different ways. I'm sorry for whatever stress you are having to deal with. I can however tell you that my only path to happiness is to cultivate gratefulness. I can always find plenty of reasons to feel less fortunate than someone else. That's easy. What's hard, but worth doing is to find reasons I'm more fortunate than someone else. One leaves me feeling stressed but the other leaves me feeling grateful. I like the later feeling a lot better.
I count my blessings as well, creative imagination, music. All these cumulatively help. There was a time it countered all my stresses, but now, they got too big! Hopefully 2023 would be different in a good way.