How do I change my personal goal for Relay for Life?

How do I change My Life? Nothing changes, but still I have to live a happy life. I want to live a satisfying, peaceful, bright, positive life. I want to live a happy life even when Life is giving me No reason to be happy.

  • I'm a 23 year old single person who doesn't wish to be married anytime soon. But deep down inside I do wish for a man to love me for who I am. Not just marry me because he has to get married. I want to fall in love and then get married. I have been friends with guys and have had excellent understanding with them but then I don't know what happens, they just leave. I have been praying since years to find the true love and done every possible thing to keep my relationships with guy friends good smooth so that they can go on to the next level (that doesn't include flirting or anything, I can't do that with "just good friends" until they fall in love with me). A couple DID fall in love with me and then God knows what happened, they stopped talking to me. I have never been clingy and any other possible thing that guys hate. After praying for so many years and my prayers not been answered, my belief that God listens to our prayers has almost shattered. What should I do? Also, meanwhile, when the life is not changing or giving me a reason to be happy, I still can't stay depressed all day long? 365 days a year? My university life, social life, family life, health, everything is just getting ruined. I stay depressed ALL THE TIME like literally ALL THE TIME and now i'm so sick of this constant condition that I'm in since years. I like to be single but deep down inside now i really really need someone and change my life (both, with and/or without him-until I find one i.e.) Please help!!

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    Keep saying to yourself "Happiness is a choice" it's not dependent on the circumstances of your life.  You have the power to be happy NOW. The thought "I'll be happy if..." Is a deadly trap, because when you get that thing there will then be something else that you want.  Then when the next thing comes, there will be something else, something else, and something else. It's a vicious cycle dependent on the outside world not on yourself. Help someone once a day. Help an old lady with her groceries, buy a homeless man a sandwich, help someone at work finish a project they are behind on. Being in service to others will grant you more happiness than you ever thought. Bring your focus off of yourself and on to others. Smile. The old adage of "fake it till you make it" holds some weight. I dare you to smile for five minutes and not feel happier. You'll also spread happiness with your smile. Exercise. A very prominent physician once said to me "if they could take all of the beneficial effects of exercise and bottle it, they would call it a miracle drug."  I dare you to go for a short run and not feel better afterwards.  I have never, after a workout, regretted it. Lastly, some people do have chemical imbalances. This is a disease. Talk to a doctor. It is not your fault if you suffer from depression and should be taken as seriously as any other chronic condition. Perhaps, a little medication for awhile might help you break out of your rut(if nothing else seems to work). It's nothing to be ashamed of; if you had a broken leg you would use a crutch until it healed wouldn't you?  If you do suffer from clinical depression, which unfortunately gets a bad rap right now because doctors are overprescribing antidepressives, you should seek treatment. I hope this helps.

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Stop the desire for finding a boyfriend. Stop the desire to be happy. Its blocking you. Start the desire to know other things that make you happy. Learn, experience, travel. Do some sport that makes you interact with other people. Have fun! Everything else will follow

Gerard Sans

Wait... Stop... all those prayers did not go unnoticed and those fellows that said they loved you but then left... They were not the one for you. You start out saying you do not want to get married anytime soon. That's good... heck that's GREAT even. These friends that come and go believe it or not are making you stronger for when the right one does come its probably not going to be all peaches and cream lovey dovey whirlwindish relationship. Falling in love is painful; you think that person is everything your imagination creates but the real person is just a person and when two people find each other they rush into it blinded with high expectations but all to soon they discover that it is not at all what they expected. Slow down and quit worrying about past relationships and cultivate the one that is most important. That relationship with the one who actually heard your prayers and caused all those fellows to move on; the one who knows your beginning and your end and everything in between. Get that relationship right, make it your primary relationship and he will make you into a wife who will hear great things about her Husband, and whose husband will love her enough to put her needs ahead of his own. You are only 23, still very young, be free and single and quit looking at guy friends as if they are supposed to be permanent fixtures in your life. If you are not in love with them then be happy that they have moved on. Rejoice if they find happiness. Your time will come till then live free in Christ. I am always happy when I see someone else find happiness.

Mark Hamric

I felt the same way. But a relationship with Jesus is very important. Celebrate the season you are in (being single) and stop dwelling on the things you think you need ( a relationship). You will continue to live a look for of lack if you continue to tell yourself you need to be in a relationship. Find contentment in your relationship with God first so you can learn to be content being single and later contentment in a relationship. Another person will not complete you. :)

Temi Shodunke

The answer lies within your own question. You want to meet and fall in love with a person who likes and loves you for who you are. Then you really just need to be yourself. Don't do anything out of the ordinary, if you a person who likes to do something, do it, regardless of what people/guys would think. Stop being conscious of the fact that you are single, that is hampering you from being yourself. Just be normal, be calm, be yourself and the right person for you shall come along when it is time.

Anonymous

I understand where you are at. When you experience a feeling of lacking something, and that something is actually a "someone", it is very easy to allow yourself to pour all your worries into that lack. And yes, if you ask me, I've been through very similar experiences. But first, let's clear some things up: -> First and foremost, there is absolutely nothing for you to get mad at God for (or lose your faith in Him). He is the only one that knows whats best for you and for everybody else, not yourself. Have patience, for He knows best and has great plans for your life, whether you believe them or not. -> Second, there is nothing intrinsically "wrong" with you that made those people run away from you, but rather, the way you perceived them could have been brought by a idealistic mindset that possibly created false notions on what to expect from them and yourself. Possibly, what you wanted/expect from the relationship wasn't real at all, and either you acted a way that didn't match reality or expect them to fulfill a role that no possible human being could ever fulfill. And no, this isn't "lowering your standards", but actually the opposite, as I'll explain later on. Might I add, this comes from my personal experiences, so you should only take this as advice if you are able to relate to this. -> On the prospect of reality and your "no reason to be happy" disclaimer, I've also found myself in a position that if a person (often idealized), were to magically show up in my life and fill the role of a non-existant lover/sibling/parent (which are always very, very idealized and almost impossible to have a real-life match), then life would be worth living, but the most important phrase is that, if such an even were to occur, then I'd have a reason to be happy. And no, this still came from my perspective of being extremely happy with my life, myself, and my condition in general, not from a lame and guilt-liberating "my life sucks" perspective, unlike most people would think. The result? If you feel unhappy about someone not being in your life, being it a specific person or not (such as missing lovers, friends or parental roles), then (again, this comes from real-life experiences), well you probably would've guessed it: these expectations are never going to be met. And the amount of "responsibility" all of that puts on the shoulders of real-life people (everyone around you, not just your "prospects", feel like you are putting the weight of making you happy - in this case, by being perfect - on their shoulders, and you and I both know this is not intentional, but it does happen), is just impossible for them to bear, and this inevitably causes people to be drawn away from you, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings. So, the basics steps to cope with that feeling are, in my opinion and experience: -> First and foremost, get your relationship with God in order. You are not going to get far without the emotional and psychological support only He can offer you. -> Second, enjoy your life, as it is, no matter how many things you don't like might be happening. This is your life and your life only, so you better enjoy it, because no one else is going to make you enjoy your life if you don't do it yourself. -> Free yourself from anyone or anything that emotionally "drains" or "binds" you, such as people, things, habits, ideas, anything you feel hopeless and just can't seem to figure out. Answers will reveal themselves in time, I assure you. (But only if they are actually going to help you). -> Concerning people, I'd like you to give it a try and reavaliate all of your current relationships (those with real people you have contact with) with a clear mindset, free of any guilt, clingyness or negative emotional bias that may have been making you see things where there weren't any. This will allow you to see things better, who is and who isn't your friend, whom you can count on in a period of difficulty, etc., and also allow you to cut out all of the negative people (the weed) in your life which may have been negatively affecting you. -> Concerning people and expectations, use your good sense. A friend should make you feel good about yourself for an example, but it is unreal to expect them to bear the weight of making you happy all the time on their shoulders. The same if applied to lovers. Real people can be sad, angry, depressed, and wanting them to be your only source of happiness is not only wrong, it's downright cruel. -> Also, don't try force anything on your future relationships. If you don't like someone or they don't like you, or someone you like doesn't like you like you do (or vice-versa), sometimes it is much better to accept that and move on, no anger or resentment involved. Trust me, if is much better that way. -> Concerning your own happiness, you must understand that no one but yourself is responsible for that. Yes people can make you happy or sad depending on how they treat you, but it's you, ultimately that decides what you are going to do about it. So before wishing for someone in your life that can make you happy, make yourself happy, and the rest will come just as easily. This is probably the most important thing I have written here in this answer. I cannot even begin to describe how important it is to feel happy just by being yourself. -> Still on that note of being happy with yourself, try to find what feelings you wanted from other people. Not the exact specific roles that they fulfilled, but the feelings that they represented. If you wanted to be in a relationship because you wanted to feel "more alive", for example, the answer would be doing things to yourself that make you feel more alive, such as engaging in a new activity, finding a new hobby, etc. -> I also suggest you go see a psychologist, because the help and insight from a professional is very important. And lastly, don't worry or stress about all that's happening. I assure you, if it is what's best for you, you are going to find a special someone, fall in love and get married, and everyone, your friends, family, everything, are going to collaborate, and it will be perfect, because the plans of our Creator are perfect, for He is perfect. God bless, hope I've helped! :)

Pedro Mendes de Araújo

If you are serious about changing your life, learn the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM for short) from a qualified teacher in your area and practice it 20 minutes twice a day regularly. You should start seeing the first change in the first few minutes. Literally. That's not hyperbole or a joke. You'll start changing for the better right in the first few minutes. It's that easy and powerful. After regularly practicing for about 3 months you'll look back and see how you've changed. After regular practice for a few years you'll see big change—personal growth—you'll see how it changed the whole direction of your life by making better decisions; your health will improve, your relationships  will become easier and clearer, and your enjoyment of life will grow much stronger. How does TM do that? By systematically allowing your attention to be drawn to experience your own source of consciousness which is what every moment of your life needs to progress, grow, and expand. During TM the mind experiences an inward direction towards the source of thoughts, which it otherwise never does. Have you ever experienced a thought right from it's subtlest primordial inception? And been wide awake to experience it? This has nothing to do with believing anything or working at it. It's a completely natural and easy process that anyone can do. This deep inner experience brings profound rest, allows the body to throw off stresses, and actually GIVES energy, vitality. This new experience, when done repeatedly, expands consciousness repeatedly by waking up brain functioning, allowing more of your own inner life to become a lively reality in your daily life. What you gain in that experience is drawn out into your daily activity.   It's like watering the root, and the whole tree thrives. Highly recommended. Find out more here: http://www.tm.org

Steve Van Damme

i know how it feels being alone for most of the time.but think what things give real happiness to you. don't expect anything from anyone because if u don't get what you want it hurts you,with out expectation every situation is a surprise and every surprise brings a smile try to invest time in learning new things try to help people it gives more satisfaction just remember these words initiative and consistency reward yourself for what you have achieved in your life have the courage to leave the people who doesn't belong to you,you will meet some one who truly loves you be yourself no matter what others think be happy with what you have and don't compare your life with anyone "ATTITUDE DETERMINES ALTITUDE" stay positive and life will reward you

Aravind Osuru

I know how you feel so I'm going to list advice that helped me a lot. I hope some of it helps you. First, stop praying. Studies have shown that prayers work just as we'll as random chance, which means they don't work at all. But what does happen is you tend to feel bad that _your_ prayers are not being answered and some God is not listening to you. That just helps make you more miserable and depressed. Second look at all the other things that can make you happy. You've got plenty in your life that you can enjoy and really use to become happy and fulfilled. And happiness is very attractive so that could help you find someone. Try different styles in case your look isn't working out for you. Even things you 'know' don't suit you (in moderation of course). You may be surprised what others actually like. Finally - be yourself. Don't worry too much about guys 'not liking clingy women' etc. If sometimes you feel like being clingy (or whatever) just go ahead. If someone is right for you he should be fine with the 'real you'. All the best.

Charles Lobo

Google "Emotional Freedom Techniques". Download the free manuals and PowerPoint presentations on offer. You can also Google "EFT and depression". There are a number of videos on all aspects of EFT on YouTube.  Depression is an emotional imbalance and it can be rectified with EFT  ... without it costing you a single cent once you get the hang of it.  The only "equipment" you need is your fingers. It works just as well on  sceptics as it does on believers, so you have nothing to lose and everything to  gain.    I also did not want to get married. Then, in 1975, I met a girl who thought me so fascinating that she wanted to be with me. I was 25 years old at the time, she was 19.    I told her right at the beginning, when our relationship threatened to become serious, that I had no intention of getting married, that I did not want kids and that I would not countenance jealousy for any reason at all. As I was her first boyfriend, I told her to get out there and discover for herself whether I was the best guy for her. She did: she had a number of boyfriends and lovers, all of whom she introduced to me. Some were really nice guys.    She is still with me and she stopped looking many years ago. We never married and we never had kids.     Basically, I advocate laying your cards on the table right from the start. Let your love interest know what you want and see if it correlates with what he wants. If not, are you willing to compromise and in doing so, relinquish being your true self? Will you be happy with a half measure of your ideal life?      What do you mean when you say "I love you?" Are you actually saying "I want you to love me?"     What do you want from love, anyway? You may be better off with a dog or a cat: you can share all your secrets with them and they will neither judge you, nor give you away to anyone for any amount of bribe money!     Are guys just using you as a stepping stone because you really have nothing to offer them? Why do you have to pray for a soul mate? Are you not good enough, so that you need Divine Intervention?     If you want the best for yourself, start off by BEING the best for yourself. Decide exactly what you want and go for it: let NOTHING stand in your way, but do it honestly and courteously.     Can you sit down and hold a meaningful conversation, or are you constantly distracted by your 'cellphone? How about him: can he do the same?     Do you have enough interests to keep you so occupied from early morning that, when you look up again, you discover that it's way past your bedtime? Are you happy with yourself, with the person you are? If not, are you not being presumptuous to expect someone else to be happy with this person that YOU are not happy with?     My motto for friendships and other relationships is this: "This is my life. I will invite to share it with me those people who I think will enhance it and whose lives I think I can enhance in return."     Life IS a bowl of cherries, but remember one thing: YOU have to provide the bowl and YOU have to grow the cherries. You are the garden. Cultivate yourself. The rest will follow.

Keith Taylor

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