{Another post}

These are just my thoughts. There are seasons to our lives just like there are seasons each year. Some bring sunny shiny moments that can last awhile or come and go very quickly. There can be times where there's complete contentment, which makes me think of the fall. And then there are those darn winter months or the rainy spring months. Cold or rainy, or gloomy.  We all have our seasons. And sometimes even in the summer with our sun and shiny moments we will get a typhoon, or rain.

Basically, there is no material thing in this world that can make a person truly happy. I am sure we have all experienced this, where we think if we go get new clothes we will feel better, OR if we go buy that nice bedroom set it will bring more peace in our rooms, etc. And we all know that feeling right after we get those material things... we are excited, and those new clothes do make us feel better, but only for a short moment. It doesn't bring true happiness, if that's what we are searching for. It doesn't FIX our faults or our weaknesses, if that's what we are hoping to fix. We have to LOOK INSIDE ourselves to truly fix what's missing. SURE, money can make things easier financially(in a way), but that's it. It won't suddenly FIX our marriages or relationships. It won't suddenly make you a happy person if you weren't already. It won't suddenly make you stop being a complainer and a whiner, because if that's what your good at doing you will just find more to complain and whine about. A complainer and whiner will always find something to complain about.  Money won't fix a darn thing except for the fact that it will make your life feel financially easier(in a way). If your love for your spouse is based on how much money you have, then maybe it isn't love. If you think you can buy love, you can't.

I must say, just because someone buys stuff and has money doesn't mean they have a problem. :) So hopefully you get what i am saying in all this.

We all know the person who is an emotional spender. They are lacking something in their lives, and to get a temporary fix or high, they go buy things. They buy and buy only to discover it didn't fix the problem. So then they go buy again. BUT still nothing is fixed. It's an empty whole that can't be filled. That's because money can't fix our belief system. Money can't fix our emotional needs. Money can't fix our anger or sadness or resentment. You just can't buy those things.  Basically, there's nothing that can make you happy, but YOU. You decide how you are going to be. You decide whether you are going to be grumpy or happy. Nobody can make you unhappy, nobody can make you grumpy, nobody. You decide whether you can let things go, you decide whether you can forgive or not, you decide. You choose how you are going to act and who you are going to be. Maybe some of us blame our life circumstances for our unhappiness. Or maybe we blame somebody else for our unhappiness. But we still can choose to be positive and happy. We can choose to forgive. You have a choice.  Just because someone is happy doesn't mean they don't experience hardships.  Every single person has something they are going through that is hard right now. Every single person has experienced, most likely, many hardships you have no idea about. We know HALF the story of most people. Everybody experiences it. Nobody is exempt from hard times.  And when you see those people who experience those hard times who choose to be happyand find the good around them, we(I) feel a sense of inspiration. It makes me want to practice that trait and be the same way.  We can blame our past for the reason we are who we are. we can blame our past for many things. But we all know there really is nobody to blame except ourselves.

This is something i have come to realize.  We choose WHO we are going to be and we choose HOW we will be during hard times. It's all on us. Nobody is to blame except ourselves. There's no excuse.

It's not just about the emotional spender(which i think could be labeled as a type of addiction)...but anything that's taking over our lives in an unbalanced unhealthy way is also in this category.
No material possessions on earth will fix our happiness. Often times many of us think it will, but if you truly look inside yourself and are truly honest with yourself you will realize your search to find happiness isn't based on any outside sources or material sources. It's based upon fixing what's missing inside your own self.

This is true.