Nothing Out of Obligation
Except for Paying Bills — Otherwise, Be Happy
I don’t know where we got the idea that our happiness isn’t important. I’m watching other adults adulting and wondering what the hell they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Do we even question how we live, or do we just live by rote?
But maybe I’m a different sort of human. After all, I left a family funeral not vowing to spend more time seeing family members. I left thinking that I need to spend more time being happy rather than doing things out of obligation.
To be clear, going to a funeral wasn’t a joy, but neither was it an obligation. I showed up because I needed to be there for my grandmother — and for myself in grieving her passing.
But I’m over obligations.
I think many people have this existential crisis of seeing someone they love pass away and decide that they want to spend more time seeing the people they’re related to before they run out of time. If that’s what they value, I fully support it. I just have a slightly different take on the same…
