You want to be happy, so do I but, what is happiness?
Here and there we are being flooded with messages of how to archive happiness. “Buy that new car”, “try this new fitness program” and we continue to buy more, and more into the marketing gimmicking and we find, we are never happy—in fact, the more we buy, the unhappier we have found ourselves to be.
So, who is happy? I’m thinking of that person who is free of any worries and just glides through the rosiness of life. Wait. Rosiness of life? Of course that’s a person in my dreams. Maybe I’m even asking the wrong question; being happy is vague and an illusionary pursuit. A pursuit that have, in my opinion being sold to us by the world out there. The world that wants to exploit us, the world that want to create in us a problem so that they can offer their solution we can buy into.
Lately, I’ve being coming to realize that the only place one can find contentment is from within.
Good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy—this is how the dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/happiness) defines happiness. And I’d repeat, the only way one can truly find happiness is from within. There are many externalities promising to bring us happiness and then we find, the more of this things we are getting the more unhappier we are.
Have you ever wondered why people living in richer countries are more unhappy? They have more; that more increases the desires, an increase in desire causes a pain, these pain creates an illusion of problems being from the outside and, we try to get more “stuff” to subdue this pain [unhappiness] when in reality, the cause is not what is outside, but what is inside.
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