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My Happiness May Not Look The Same As Your Happiness

Carmellita
4 min readNov 10, 2022

Live a happy life your way.

“Happiness on Your Terms” Image by Author: Carmellita in Canva

Over the past year, perhaps since my last birthday, I’ve written about resiliency, autonomy, and fulfillment quite often.

I look through the work I’ve written on various sites, and overall, the themes have been living the life you want to live, putting the life back in your living, and recovering from failure.

Furthermore, I’ve touched upon the importance of having agency over your mind and body and not following the crowd to ensure we understand empowerment and its many facets.

I drive home these principles because all methodologies of personal growth and true self-development demonstrate we can’t experience fulfillment in a disempowered state.

Nevertheless, I hope to offer you a few pearls of wisdom I’ve collected. Wisdom on creating your happiness without being seduced into someone else’s version of what happiness should look like for you.

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Carmellita
Carmellita

Written by Carmellita

Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. BA in Speech Communication. Joyful Creator. Blogger with an old-school flavor. A former ghostwriter who came back to life.

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