Take Some Responsibility for Your Own Happiness
Our state of happiness isn’t someone else’s job
Self-responsibility of happiness
How many times has a person said, “I just want to be happy,” without realizing it’s a state of mind? How many times have people placed blame on others for their unhappiness?
What happened to self-responsibility? Is the direct search for happiness polluted? Too many people have the misconception that being happy is a place to be reached, rather than a state of mind to achieve.
Within any given moment in time, one is either happy or not. Sometimes it’s a choice, and sometimes it’s a struggle. It is a tone or tune within our minds.
We think that if we buy everything we ever want in life, then we’ll be happy. We think that if we could only win the lottery, then we would indeed be truly happy. In our solitude, we might memorialize certain life events that aroused us to become happy individuals.
We have temporary marriages because of temporary fixations, the “newness” wears off, so we want to move on to experience that unusual feeling again, notwithstanding the fact that…
