Happiness is waking up with a purpose

Happiness is what everyone aims to achieve in life, but nobody really knows how to get it. They know what makes them happy, you can ask them and they will say, “family, friends, food, my significant other, my work.” But what do all of these things have in common? They are a purpose. When you wake up in the morning and you don’t have anything to do that day. Maybe the first day that happens your fine, maybe even the second, but eventually you are going to get very depressed. Life is not meant to be lived without a purpose. This means you have to have a purpose and it has to be specific. It can’t be make people happy. It has to be, today I am going to make somebody happy by telling them a joke, I have to remind my significant other of why they love me. These things are what make us happy.

Do you know why these things make us happy? Because it’s evolutionary. What do people love in general what makes us happy because we are humans and we need to survive and reproduce. Food makes us happy, Sex makes us happy, Relationships make us happy, Collaboration makes us happy. All of these things help the human race survive but there is one more that we are missing here one more thing that makes people happy that is coded into us. It’s just doing something, CREATING something, not because we are told to because we WANT to. These are the important things. So many people are sad today especially teenagers, do you know why? Because they have no free time to chose to do something. They are so busy with things they are told to do that they have nothing they chose to do to make them happy. This is the problem, companies that give their employees free time have great inventions and happier employees.

What we have to do is give ourselves breathing room, give ourselves time alone, just to ourselves to get to know ourselves, get to know what we like. Then we will be able to be happy.