Trying to find peace in this crazy mixed up world...

I don't know that I've ever felt inner peace before. I think the closest I ever got was a few years ago when I got depressed and hit a certain point between normal and full on depression where I just didn't give a crap anymore. It was actually quite liberating. Nothing bothered me because I stopped caring. People, things, situations are always making me angry and frustrated. Today I had a bit of an epiphany. This afternoon I was reading a blog post on Etsy and I read through the comments that were made. A lot of them were not pleasant and some were even downright mean. I also got one of my school assignments back. I was not happy about some of the comments my instructor made. And then it hit me:

• Less than perfect people will always judge me.
• There will always be those who try to get away with things that go against what is proper behavior.
• There will always be people who try to convince you that their opinions are the right ones and jam it down your throat.
• There are people who just don't know how to be nice.

So out of that I made the following decisions:

• I will let my money do the talking for me. If I don't agree with a company or the way something is made (or the false pretenses behind it), I won't buy it.
• If someone I know uses social media to make passive aggressive threats (towards me or anyone else) or to continuously use it as a way to claim that their opinions are the only right ones, then I will block that person so that their words won't upset me.
• I will be the best that I can be. It's OK to not be perfect because I know that I have done my very best.
• Not everyone has to like me and I don't have to like everyone.
• To be patient because people will eventually learn in their own time.

I can't say that I won't get angry or frustrated again. I know me too well. However, I want to try to learn to be more calm because I don't want to end up on a therapist's couch again.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. – Norman Vincent Peale