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It's more than your feet on the pavement or the weights at the gym.

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It's always fascinated me that we spend so much of our lives searching for the things that we realize in time we had all along.

That our journeys bring us full circle. Our stories end how they began, and in the end, we fade away holding tightly to that from which we emerged.

Not because we fell short, no, but because eventually

we realize how simple things really are from the outside.

Looking in, we realize what we have.

Speaker Dennis Waitley once said,

happiness cannot be traveled to.

Owned, earned, worn, or consumed.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and

gratitude.

It's why times like these, when we get to look around and recapture our perspective, means so

much, almost as though it's reassurance that, yeah, life can be hard, frustrating, abstract,

but that the core of everything is contentment is enough.

It's why we need not search for love we are in fact surrounded by it.

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