"Are you in love with your life?"

Life, Success, Happiness - all can mean many things to many people. This lady, Peace Pilgrim, certainly did inquire into her life and discovered important points on which to create a new life for herself that was far more meaningful than previously.

http://www.peacepilgrim.com/stepssumry.htm

FOUR PREPARATIONS

1. Assume right attitude toward life

Stop being an escapist or a surface-liver as these attitudes can only cause inharmony in your life. Face life squarely and get down below the froth on its surface to discover its verities and realities. Solve the problems that life sets before you, and you will find that solving them contributes to your inner growth. Helping to solve collective problems contributes also to your growth, and these problems should never be avoided.

2. Live good beliefs.

The laws governing human conduct apply as rigidly as the law of gravity. Obedience to these laws pushes us toward harmony; disobedience pushes us toward inharmony. Since many of these laws are already common belief, you can begin by putting into practice all the good things you believe. No life can be in harmony unless belief and practice are in harmony.

3. Find your place in the Life Pattern.

You have a part in the scheme of things. What that part is you can know only from within yourself. You can seek it in receptive silence. You can begin to live in accordance with it by doing all the good things you are motivated toward and giving these things priority in your life over all the superficial things that customarily occupy human lives.

4. Simplify life to bring inner and outer well-being into harmony.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. Many lives are cluttered not only with unnecessary possessions but also with meaningless activities. Cluttered lives are out-of-harmony lives and require simplification. Wants and needs can become the same in a human life and, when this is accomplished, there will be a sense of harmony between inner and outer well-being. Such harmony is needful not only in the individual life but in the collective life too.

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(Personally, I feel we ought to learn to love ALL life, not only our own!)   

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I am afraid to lose my life - I want to live verrrrrrrry long and if I'd wish to die, that's when I know, everything is all set like I won't worry about my children and grandchildren because they are successfull.  Sounds selfish, right?  But that's what I want and feel for my life. 

And for me, success is always linked with happiness.  I am a person who always want to succeed because that's what makes me happy. 

There are a lot of reasons for us to be in love with our lives.  Our family, the beauty of nature and the fact that God has given us the life in order to see and experience these wonderful things around us.  And all the people we love and the things that we have.  And the thought that God didn't choose us to be ants but superior human beings who can control over other lower creatures.  Isn't it happy?

Actually I put this on my site a year ago, "I love life and life loves me." I love being with my husband, 4 grown daughters, 5 grandchildren, and 2 dogs. What joy and happiness resides in our hearts.  However, we just don't keep it, but share it with others.  life must love me to bestow such treasures.

I am one of those people who suffered through horrific childhood, abuse, jealous and hateful people, bipolar and of late had a bilateral subderal hemotoma, which I battle the remnants of that accident every day.  I was in my late 40's when I returned to school and graduated with honor from Pasadena City College and the University of Southern California.

The answer to your question, YES!