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Searching for the elusive Happiness

Searching for the elusive Happiness

Happiness

The search for happiness is one of the most important missions that a person embarks on.  For some people, happiness means being healthy, being beautiful, having a wonderful family, a successful career or a successful relationship.  For many, happiness is hard to hold on to like a grain of sand that slips through your hands or a bubble that bursts once you touch it.

So, what is happiness?  As Merriam Webster dictionary defines it, happiness is a state of well-being and contentment.  Since the feeling of contentment is different for everybody, it means that the person itself defines happiness; in this case, YOU.

What is happiness for you?  What will make you feel and say that you are happy?

Here are some tips that may help you find the happiness you are looking for:

  1. Know yourself.  Since only you can define happiness, the first step you need to do before you search for it is to know yourself.  Knowing yourself will lead you half way to your mission.
  2. Your happiness depends on you.  Happiness does not dependent on other people, things or places.  People, things or places are beyond your control and depending on them will eventually make you end up being disappointed in the end.

Here’s an example:  When your happiness depends on a particular person, does it mean that when that person goes away, your happiness goes away with them?  If your answer is YES, then you’ll end up being sad because we cannot hold on to a person forever.  So what do you do?  Take your perspective to the next level.  Happiness does not only depend on the physical presence of the person.  It is the feeling that you have deep within you that nobody can take away.  It is the love that binds you together that makes you happy.  If you hold on to this feeling and accept that a person’s life is not forever, then you will still be happy even if that person leaves.  That is happiness.

  1. Be positive.  There are always two sides to the coin.  If there are disappointments, downsides and negativity, there are positive things to it, for sure.  Just like water in the glass.  If you always see that your glass is half empty, then you only see what you don’t have.  But if you see that your glass is half full, your perspective changes into looking at what you have rather than what you lack.  Happiness is being able to accept and being thankful for what you have.

Happiness is how you view life

We can therefore conclude that happiness is how you view life.  If you are unhappy, it may only mean that you need to change perspectives.  Finding your happiness is a perfect gift that you can give yourself.  It is very wonderful to be happy.  Everybody deserves to be happy.  In the end, it is always good to know that happiness is not really hard to find.  You only need to look deep within you because it is like a ray of light waiting to explode. The journey toward oneself may take a while, but it is always worth it.  Only then can you say that happiness is not as elusive as most people think.

 


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