If you really want to be happy stop trying so hard
It’s time to start letting go of being happy all the time.
by: E.B. Johnson
Everywhere we look, we are bombarded with varying ideas of happiness. TV’s sell it to us in the shape of their products and wares, and magazines and self-help books scream it from their frontmost pages. Happiness is the end all and be all in life; it’s a worldwide obsession and craze.
As humans, we want to be happy. That’s what’s in our natures. We spend almost every single hour of the day chasing the things we believe will make us happy — even when those things are based on empty promises and shallow magazine cover models.
We work hard to achieve a standard of happiness we find acceptable. We invest our time, our resources and our energies to become happier people, but even when we achieve those standards the victory often feels hollow, shallow.
Why? Because pursuing happiness as a goal is an epidemic — and a super unhealthy one at that.
According to science, if you really want to be happy you need to put down those self-help books and start getting real.
