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Articles Here are by Leslie Gibford Escoto
and are from her Facebook page
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Enjoy Life

Being content is perfectly appropriate for where we are at this moment in time. If we constantly strive to be someone else, or live somewhere else, or be with someone else, or work somewhere else, or drive something else, etc. we will never find the joy and peace of the truly wonderful human being we are right now. We are all given a life and we can choose to see it as a gift that should be cherished and lived well and wonderful. But recognizing this and being grateful for it are, for some, elusive and so we struggle to become "better", more worthy, more lovable, more beautiful, more wealthy, more acceptable, more, more, more, more, more.

And while doing all this constant yearning to be other than who and where we are right now, we miss the very things that can provide us the joy, satisfaction, security, adventure, fun, and love that we yearn for from someone, something, or somewhere else. Yes, there are things in all our lives that we wish were different, better, safer, resolved, but it's ultimately only going to harm us if we dwell simply on the bad and wish, wish, wish for it to be different. Don’t wish your life away…accept the fact that you are where you are at this time in your life for a purpose and be determined to find joy in everything that is here, in and with you...right now.