CONTENTMENT, SECRETS OF LASTING HAPPINESS.
I have a house, I have a car. I have a good paying job, I have money. I have a great relationship, I am happy.
** What truly is happiness? **
Is it a wardrobe filled with latest designer clothes, a fat bank account or anything material?
What is trending today will be out of vogue tomorrow. If happiness then is tied to things, what happens when those things aren't there anymore? It thus means that our happiness would fade too.
The world has set up a standard for others to follow. Standards that are not measured on every one's terms. This has set a lot of people on a rat race; in pursuit of happiness in the wrong places and in the wrong things.
The greatest form of all happiness is contentment.
Contentment is a state of the mind. Happiness is a deliberate decision as well as a choice to be content in whatever state we find ourselves while expecting things to turn out better. Humans are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
I've heard people say if I have so and so, I will be happy. A woman already with six children all female says I'll be happy as long as I have a male child. Some people have restricted their happiness to a holiday, to a marriage, to a job, some to kids, to degree and the list is endless. It goes on and on in a cyclic order and the answer to one need just reveal or expose the need for another because human wants are insatiable.
True happiness is not found in things or people.
A lot of persons have become slaves to another because they have decided to be happy only when around those people. That is a risk because you've given another person too much control over your life. The control people exert over your life is the one you give them.
If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken because no one really has the key to your happiness.They can only help bring out what you already got inside.
Happiness comes from within, not from a relationship. Infact, a happy disposition can help attract the people and the things you want to yourself while a sad disposition pushes away the people and the things you really want.
Learn to be emotionally independent. Take charge of your life. You're ultimately responsible for your happiness.
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