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Subscribe to POETICALLY SPOKEN by Email It does not always follow that because it is one’s body then they are content with it. For this very reason people will go for all manners of body jobs; reconstruct the person they are into that they wish they were, become shadows or false replicas – at ease with flaunting appendages.   Except filled, we go about with one form of discontent or the other; mostly probing and desiring more than acknowledging and accepting that things are made for reasons, and that there is a purpose for even the most insignificant – and that uniqueness is the beauty behind the creation of man. Except for a few close calls, we are widely different, not just in looks but in thoughts; we are meant to be different. Sadly, there will always be that tendency to want to be like someone else because of our emotion-blurred perception of the superiority of their form or worth. In the kind of world we live in today – a world where corporations decide what i...

When it comes to happiness, we often times can not say where we are; if we are in it or out of it. Why it will not last or will not come. Happiness can be illusive or elusive depending on our state of mind. Sometimes we think we are happy, we believe we have arrived at our happyzone, but all we have done is achieved an objective or accomplishment. Which was bound to give only a flitting sense of contentment or wellbeing and the feeling peters away. And sometimes we set happiness as a goal that we must achieve, then we spend our whole life pursuing it; tearing down and building up - flying high only to later crawl, yet not finding it. In our pursuits we may mirror other peoples' lives, turn them into ours, capture their private dreams in the hope we'll arrive at their proclaimed state of happiness, and in the end our soul is still deflated and craving for substance. To maintain any lengthy sense of happiness, one must seek inner peace first. We must learn to make every mome...