“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy L. Goodman
I see and hear often of people who live their lives off of happiness. That happiness is all that is needed to live a good life. This means that any feeling that is not closely related to happiness is non-ideal. That if you are not happy then you are living a poor life. This way of reasoning is everywhere. Millions live their lives overfilled with happiness. I am here to tell you this is the wrong way to live life.
Chasing happiness is a fleeting expense. Meaning it costs sooooooooooooooooo much money and time to be happy. To keep your dopamine receptors filled to the maximum levels all of the time. Sure, being happy feels amazing. Any good life actually contains happiness; yet happiness is just another emotion. To prize one emotion over another is to say one emotion is not equal to the other. That is a subtle way to invalidate your own emotions. You as a human being are born with a range of emotions to feel. Do not run away from your own capacity to feel. Sure positive emotions need to be the forefront of our desires, but negative emotions are just as needed. In order to have a high there has to be a low. To deny the low is to deny the high as they are polarizing forces. Do you see?
Embark on a path of meaning and purpose. A path allows you to anchor routines of self care in order to cultivate your inner self. The self who has ultimately lived many lives before. To many this is your DNA, your ancestors. I say this because everyone has a gift within themselves they can bring to the world. This gift bears life. It literally moves the world. All the time spent chasing happiness is wasted resources that could of been directed towards your gifts. Do not become a slave to a feeling. Feelings can be and are manipulated making you easily un-regulated. I can almost guarantee you do not want that for yourself.
Dedicate your life to your creations. To what you can bring fourth and offer the world that no-one else easily can. For when you do this you will still experience great happiness, it will just not be the forefront of your existence. Happiness becomes you and not the other way around. In my mind that is so much better than trying to chase happiness all the time.
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