At some point, your happiness changes, or better said, evolves, usually when additions are made to the family. I went on to teaching them and happiness was mixed in there, but, in a more convoluted way. It was no longer about me, but, I was involved.
Teach your children good principles. Giving them the principles prepares them for the future when just giving a "no" on a certain issue only deals with the issue at hand........and, often I see parents who don't even give any reason why. When I was younger, I thought my children should mind me "because I said so" not because I wanted blind compliance, but because I was concerned that at some point they would be put in danger if they didn't obey immediately. I'm glad I began to see the importance of explaining the whys so that they could see where I was coming from. (even if they still didn't agree) Happiness is secondary to peace in the knowledge that I've done the best I could do in any situation. Peace rules supreme.
The external pursuit of happiness is elusive unless one understands that it comes from within.
All I have are my words, armed in my mind, written in pen, stand by stand. Oh, yes. Still by hand. It has a different feel. Altered not by keys, backspace, and delete, I write, erase, tear it to pieces and start all over again. And again.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer鈥檚 day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer鈥檚 lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature鈥檚 changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow鈥檚t,
Nor shall death brag thou wander鈥檚t in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow鈥檚t,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare