My own formula of happiness!

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There are three major things that keep me sane in this life. 

 I like to call them my own little crucial tri-formula of surviving each and every single day I live on this planet we call Earth.  These three things are simple... they all come down to the unconditional love I possess for each an every one of them... they are: my loving family, my loving heavenly father and all he has blessed me with, and my passion for dance. These three things keep me sane.. they keep me functioning. they keep me stable and if you were to take one thing out of the formula it would throw off the whole equation. 

 These three things play a crucial part in my life and they are ultimately my 'key' to happiness. Family is something I think we would all agree is crucial to living our lives each and everyday. They are the people that are there to love and care for you, no matter what. Even when my family and I disagree on something and even when we argue to the point that it seems nothing could fix it, something always does. I have a very loving, complex family. And there love and support is what keeps me functioning. Even if they don't love and agree with goals I might have they still love me and support me in the ways they can. 

 The love that heavenly father shares for you and I is unfathomable and unconditional. It's something you and I can not even comprehend. I know that he watches over each and everyone of us out there and he loves us. This is crucial to my existence because I know that no matter what I do or say, no matter what mistakes I make, through the atonement I can be forgiven and find ultimate peace and happiness. What a comfort it is to know that someone loves us so much that he would give up his one and only begotten son so that we could live this plan of happiness and return to live with him again someday. Wow the love he has for us is so comforting and is what keeps me striving to endure and to be better each and everyday, because everyday is a new day with new opportunities. Opportunities to serve and to love one another. 

 The third part of my tri-formula is the love and passion I have for dance. I believe everyone has a different way to escape into their own fantasy world, may it be reading, writing, playing the piano, running, or playing football; each and everyone of us has an escape, and that is what makes our formulas of happiness different and unique. My escape is dance, through it or even just the thought of it takes me to my fantasy world... I am allowed to feel something that I can only feel through dance. I am allowed to transform into this different me, to experience this whole different world, to flat out express yourself through the music and the art of it all. That is what makes dance complete my tri-formula, because it lets express my feelings in a way I could not do any other way. 
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I am so grateful for each and every aspect of my tri-formula, and I am grateful for all the things I have done, the feelings I have felt and the people I have met through them. I am glad I have these things in my life to keep me running. 

 With all that being said, this past week has been really tough and the next week/week and a half are going to be tough. I am not able to dance because of some health issues I have been having, but its only made me step back and realize how much more I should love an appreciate the abilities and talents I do have. I am grateful for the woman my mom has raised me to be and I am grateful for the seeds she has planted so that I could branch off and experience the opportunities I have been blessed to take part in. 

 ... just feeling very grateful and happy, thought I would share my thoughts!  

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