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Richard Dicklan Jan 2019
Happiness is not something obtained
It’s definitely not postponed for the future.
But happiness is a feeling experienced
It’s something designed for the present.

When you feel sad don't distract.
Focus only on that feeling.
Take your emotions and make them work for you. Your emotions are in you
Not you are in your emotions.

When your mad steer that anger
Make that anger into happiness.
Understand why you are angry.
Then control your anger
Focus on the whole idea not just thought.
Take that idea and laugh at it.
Take that laughter and make it happiness.

When your depressed or lonely take it and throw it out.
Do the opposite.
If you're depressed do something happy.
If you're lonely get with friends or family.
Take that and keep it close.

If you are scared overcome your fear.
Identify your fear.
Confront your fear.
Control your fear.
Overcome your fear.

If you are disgusted then teach yourself a lesson.
Confront it.
**** it.
Control it.
Richard Dicklan Jan 2019
Love Through Pain and Glory

Love. The irony of it.
Lasts a year or just a minute.
Some love just to say they did it.
But only very few ever win it.
It’s hard, difficult, and oh so heavy.
It’s so bad that nobody is ever ready.
We try and try hard to keep it steady.
And just like that’s it’s done already.

While roses are still red and violets are still blue.
Nothing will help what happens to you.
And yes I might have bit more than I could chew,
But it doesn’t explain the way I loved you.
It’s the worst to see you go.
And even worse when you walk slow.
The point is that you should know.
That I was shot with your ammo.

I too was in love with someone.
And just like that it was over and done.
But look at the person that I have become.
Because every new day starts with the sun.
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
And I soared as high as I could be.
And then reality set upon the scene.
And turned so very dark from the bright green.

Oh and how the tables turned,
How every little thing I earned
Was twisted and shook and burned.
But I burned more than I learned.
It’s funny how things didn’t work out,
How all I want to do now is scream and shout.
It’s crazy how they were all I talk about.
And now they are really gone, without a doubt.

Seize the moment is what they say.
But don’t they understand it’s not the day.
Not the day to mean what you say.
And not the day where it’s time to play.
And yes I was crying and I did bawl.
But through it all, I stood tall.
I faced the love, I faced it all.
And now I’m bigger and not so small.
Richard Dicklan Jan 2019
If you are in love then do it.
Do what ever it is.
Do the thing that makes you overcome all fears all sadness all anger all disgust.
The only thing you should feel is happiness.
For love is cherished.
Not wasted.
Love is love.
It is not something won or grasped.
It is something from within. Within the thing that gives you life.
The thing that puts you in any situation for that love.
The thing that you would do anything for.
The thing that without, you would be no more.
The thing that everyone needs.
The thing that everybody wants.
And when you finally feel it you will know.
Live your love.
Every day. Everywhere. Everyone. Every time. Love is the most precious thing.
Nothing can over turn it.
Nothing can hurt it.
If it is true pure love it will last.
Through good. Through bad.
Through nice. Through harsh.
Through anything.
Nothing can stop it.
For it is impenetrable.
Impossible to find.
Only possible if it is felt.
The only sense needed for love is touch.
The ability to feel.
The ability to feel allows you to love.
Without this love doesn't exist.
And if love is mistaken hell is to be the next thing. Love never is mistaken.
Love is mistreated.
Misused. Misunderstood. Missed by most.
But if you are able to feel it. You will be lucky. Luckier than any other.
If love doesn't last it is not love. It is nothing. It is just regret.
Love.
The best thing possible.
The best thing ever.
Live Life as Love.
Love for all.
Live. Love. Learn.

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