The Beginner’s Guide To Happiness
Search within. And you know how you can be happy.
The night before, my friend asked me a simple but profound question — “what does happiness mean to you?”
I went in silent.
At the end of the day, it is not something that we will consider daily, especially living in a metropolitan where the city never sleeps.
Happiness used to be so simple when we were young. You get the candy, then you are happy. A new toy? Nothing better than that in life.
But when time goes by, happiness becomes way more complicated. You might get a good grade in school, but then you need to keep the performance up and fight for a decent university. Later on, when you graduate and get a fair company offer, you need to start worrying about the office’s politics and how to get promoted in the next year.
So many boundaries. So many worries. And so much concern.
We start to tie our dream and happiness to a person or an item. A perfect partner. A decent income. A new flat. But when we get there, we always want more.
Happiness seems only to last for a minute, then when the bubble pops, we already have drowned ourselves in the desire for the next thing we want.
